The Reasons the Methodology Some Conclusions amp Some Concerns Brian Kelly UKOLN Aims monitor use of online services in order to identify patterns which can inform policies and practices ID: 493858
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Observing Our Community: The Reasons, the Methodology, Some Conclusions & Some ConcernsBrian Kelly, UKOLN
Aims: monitor use of online services in order to identify patterns which can inform policies and practices
Methodology: use online tools to record usage, typically in Russell Group universities
Examples: institutional use of Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, ..; use of research profiling services; …
PeerIndexing
rankings
How might you interpret such steady growth?
Can you spot Oxbridge
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Observing Our Community: The Reasons, the Methodology,
Some Conclusions & Some ConcernsBrian Kelly, UKOLNConclusions
: (1) Outliers are interesting(2) Comparisons can identify good (& bad) practices)(3) Findings may challenge IT orthodoxies
Conclusions: Further analyses would be interesting such as:
How many research papers are deposited in ResearchGate? How does this compare with institutional repositories?
Concerns
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Survey is flawed (e.g. Google personalisation)
Interpretation is flawed
Politics
Addressed by open discussion on UK Web Focus blog