Open AccessShaken and stirred: ASIS&T 2011 attendee reactions to shaking it up: Embracing new methods for publishing, finding, discussing, and measuring our research output
Author(s) -
Garnett Alex,
Piwowar Heather,
Holmberg Kim,
Priem Jason,
Pikas Christina K.,
Weber Nicholas
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801327
Subject(s) - timeline , likert scale , publishing , computer science , scale (ratio) , process (computing) , relevance (law) , data science , exploratory research , psychology , sociology , political science , social science , mathematics , statistics , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , law , operating system
What does the Information Science community think about new, open methods for publishing, finding, discussing, and measuring our research output? This poster will summarize audience member participation and reaction to an ASIS&T 2011 panel discussing these issues. Reaction data will consist of several Likert‐scale and open‐ended responses. The data will be collected only a day or two before the poster is displayed: classification and visualization will be done openly to accomplish a rapid summary of the data. The tight timeline and attendees‐as‐data‐source will heighten the relevance of these exploratory results. Likert‐scale response distributions will be displayed in dot‐plots to facilitate additional Write‐On‐The‐Poster contributions from poster‐viewers, further increasing engagement. Through this process we hope to raise awareness of these new open methods, discuss their strengths and weaknesses for the Information Science community, experiment with new methods for face‐to‐face group scholarly communication, and build community.