Applied Altmetrics: How university presses, academic publishing services and institutional repositories benefit.

Academic institutions are increasingly looking for ways to demonstrate the value and breadth of their publishing activity. Danielle Padula and Catherine Williams look at how one university, the University of Michigan, have incorporated altmetrics data as an author service to help academic colleagues articulate institutional-wide successes. A key benefit of altmetrics for younger or smaller publishers is that, unlike the Thomson Reuters’ […]