What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact
Margaret Heller · Loyola eCommons (Loyola University of Chicago) · 2014
Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.