Faculty Teaching and Learning Collection
Author Rights and Copyright
Conducting Literature Reviews
Altmetrics
"Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments. As scholarship increasingly moves online, these metrics track associated interactions and activity to generate fine-grained data, allowing researchers and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture of the reach and impact of academic research." (http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v02.i19)
Research Groups that offer tools dealing with alternative scholarly metrics:
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Academia.eduUsed to share research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
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Altmetric PLoS Impact ExplorerMashes up alt-metrics data from Altmetric.com with articles from the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Check which articles are seeing the most buzz from social media sites, newspapers and in online reference managers.
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Altmetric.comTracks what is being said about papers online on behalf of publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.
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Altmetrics.orgA good overview on Altmetrics.
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CiteULikeA free "social networking" type service for storing, organizing and sharing scholarly papers.
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EigenfactorA searchable database for journal metrics, going back to 1997.
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Google Scholar CitationsProvides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. Check to see who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.
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ImpactStoryAn open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products. Fee-based service with a free trial.
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MendeleyConnect with colleagues, peers or classmates to follow their research. Showcase your own published research to millions around the world.
IRB at UMGC
"In accordance with USM Policy on Human Subjects of Research (IV - 2.10) and the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (April 18, 1979)*, UMGC faculty, staff, and students who wish to conduct research involving human subjects must adhere to this Policy before conducting any research. Individuals external to UMGC who wish to conduct research involving UMGC faculty, staff, and/or students must also adhere to this Policy before conducting any research. The purpose of this Policy is:
to institute procedures that protect the rights and welfare of human subjects used in research, and to establish clear guidelines that support the integrity of data collection."