Tracking your book: What authors should know about Altmetrics

Montgomery, Lucy

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Montgomery, Lucy

Date

2013

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Conference Paper

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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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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11772

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

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.