Tracking your book: What authors should know about Altmetrics
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Montgomery, Lucy
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Montgomery, L. 2013. Tracking your book: What authors should know about Altmetrics, in JISC Collections (ed), Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences conference, Jul 1-2 2013. London: JISC.
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Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences conference
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Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences conference
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This presentation provides a brief introduction to altmetrics and discusses the challenges (and opportunities) associated with the emergence of altmetrics for books. It considers the pros and cons of altmetrics with a particular focus on open access scholarly books.