Stacy R. Konkiel

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication just published “Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States“. This is the final publication related a topic I’ve been working on since 2013 (!), when I first realized that although academic librarians were interested in research metrics, no one had yet studied the reality of how they were using these kinds of indicators in their day-to-day jobs and in…

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Last month, an article I co-authored with Josh Finnell on the challenges of organizing librarians at the grassroots was published in International Information & Library Review. We librarians love to bemoan the state of our professional organizations. (Who doesn’t?) But as board chair of Library Pipeline–a fledging professional association for librarians–and volunteer for both Pipeline’s Green Open Access Working Group and the Innovation in Libraries Awesome Foundation chapter, I have to say, running a professional organization is often tough and thankless work. Luckily,…

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I’ve recently launched a fun new project, @SociologyBot. It’s a Twitter account that recommends recently discussed research in the field of (you guessed it) sociology. I’ve been wanting to explore the “altmetrics as a filter” idea for a long time. Being able to find not only disciplinary research but also the conversations surrounding research appeals to me, and I bet that other researchers would like access to that kind of information, too. So, now I’m experimenting with a prototype “bot”,…

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CC-BY Nicky Agate / Medium I’m excited to announce that the HuMetricsHSS research team–which I was a part of at the 2016 TriangleSCI conference–has received the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue our work of encouraging the discovery and use of “humane” research evaluation metrics for the humanities and social sciences. HSS scholars are increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of the use of evaluation metrics (borrowed from the sciences) that do not accurately capture the impacts of…

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I’m super excited to announce that the Innovation in Libraries grant is now accepting applications: http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/libraries A core group of Library Pipeliners has been working hard for months to recruit rank-and-file librarians worldwide, many of whom are funding this grant out of their own pockets (!). Each month through August 2017, our Awesome Foundation chapter will award a $1000 USD grant to prototype library-based innovations (both technical and non-technical in nature) that are inclusive, daring, and diverse. I am so…

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Scholcomm’s “killer app” ain’t an app, it’s a website curated by librarians–the ultimate information experts. A little over a year ago, I quietly built and launched the best portal to find high-quality scholarly communication research: TheIdealis.org. Borrowing from the amazing precedent set by DHNow, The Idealis is a curation and notification service based on PressForward and WordPress. The Idealis is an OA twofer: it makes it effortless for readers to find the best new OA scholcomm research, and it incentivizes…

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For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with a colleague at Altmetric to develop a guide for using altmetrics in one’s promotion and tenure dossier. (Keep an eye out for the resulting blog post and handout on Altmetric.com–I think they’re going to be good!) Altmetrics and P&T is a topic that’s come up a lot recently, and predictably the responses are usually one of the following: Do you seriously want to give people tenure based on their number of…

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