For as long as researchers have been publishing their research, there have been a range of different ways that the impact of those publications has been determined. 

Traditional output has been measured by academic journal publications, and these are usually referred to as Bibliometrics. This includes information about individual articles and the output of researchers over time and depends on the author of publications being correctly identified.

Today academic research output  has expanded beyond journal publications to include the range of emerging media including  presentations, slides, data sets, and much more. Bibliometrics cannot track the impact of those media. Altmetrics represents a new area of measuring scholarly impact that includes the widening channels of scholarly communication. 

The Library offer a series of regular workshops and training opportunities for staff and students at the University of Canterbury.  They cover the practice and theory of gathering, storage, archiving and publishing of data and results. 

Subject Librarians and specialists can support you in your research.

We guide and support our community’s data, information and publication needs throughout the research lifecycle.

You can book online for classes on EndNote, NVivo, Introduction to Academic Publishing, Zotero and other topics that will support your research.