Alkim Ozaygen ; Lucy Montgomery ; Cameron Neylon ; Katie Wilson ; Richard Hosking et al. - How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs

elpub:6290 - ELectronic PUBlishing, April 18, 2020, Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing - https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.18
How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs

Authors: Alkim Ozaygen ORCID-iD; Lucy Montgomery ; Cameron Neylon ORCID-iD; Katie Wilson ORCID-iD; Richard Hosking ; Karl Huang

    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 representthe frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digitallandscapes. 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 capturedvia the online reference managing platform Mendeley. The benefits and limitations of differentaltmetrics approaches to capturing and analyzing this data are discussed. Practical suggestionsfor researchers interested in the application of Altmetrics approaches to studies of monographsare also provided.

    https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.18
    Source: HAL:hal-02544911v1
    Volume: Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing
    Section: Long Papers
    Published on: April 18, 2020
    Accepted on: April 18, 2020
    Submitted on: April 18, 2020
    Keywords: open access,monographs,books,altmetrics,[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences

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