It’s not just about citation counts anymore
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"'Faculty want more than just citation counts,' says Brad Matthies, IR Manager and Access Services Librarian at Butler University (http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/). He finds that article download reports provide Butler authors with the additional, immediate feedback they aren’t getting elsewhere. Matthies reports that his dean absolutely loves the monthly download reports. So do faculty—the most excited tell their colleagues about the repository too. For repositories struggling with faculty engagement, usage reports can provide the hook an IR manager needs to get faculty’s
attention. Time and again, we hear from IR managers something like, 'Once our faculty members start to get those monthly download reports for their articles, they come back to me with more articles to post.'"
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