How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs
This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs, published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events represent the frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digital landscapes. The study...
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| author | Ozaygen, Alkim Montgomery, Lucy Neylon, Cameron Wilson, Katie Hosking, Richard Huang, Karl |
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| description | This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs, published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events represent the frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digital landscapes. The study captured mentions of the study-set of monographs via Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and online blogs; as well as user ratings on Google Books, Amazon and Goodreads. Information relating to the ways in which the books were bookmarked and cited was captured via the online reference managing platform Mendeley. The benefits and limitations of different altmetrics approaches to capturing and analyzing this data are discussed. Practical suggestions for researchers interested in the application of Altmetrics approaches to studies of monographs are also provided. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-795252020-11-23T07:11:25Z How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs Ozaygen, Alkim Montgomery, Lucy Neylon, Cameron Wilson, Katie Hosking, Richard Huang, Karl This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs, published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events represent the frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digital landscapes. The study captured mentions of the study-set of monographs via Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and online blogs; as well as user ratings on Google Books, Amazon and Goodreads. Information relating to the ways in which the books were bookmarked and cited was captured via the online reference managing platform Mendeley. The benefits and limitations of different altmetrics approaches to capturing and analyzing this data are discussed. Practical suggestions for researchers interested in the application of Altmetrics approaches to studies of monographs are also provided. 2020 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79525 10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.18 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02544911 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Ozaygen, Alkim Montgomery, Lucy Neylon, Cameron Wilson, Katie Hosking, Richard Huang, Karl How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title | How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title_full | How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title_fullStr | How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title_short | How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs |
| title_sort | how can we use social media data related to oa monographs |
| url | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02544911 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79525 |