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Altmetrics for Libraries: 3 themes

We look at a summary of three potential uses that libraries might make of altmetric data in this post, and attempt to show that considered use of this data can help advance several functions of the library.

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Topics

  • Education

Categories

  • mendeley institutional edition
  • altmetrics
  • impactstory
  • socialcrawlytics
  • librarian
  • library collection

Contacts

Sheila Seow

Press contact Marketing Manager

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