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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Following the close of the comment period for the NISO draft white paper summarizing Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project, NISO is making available a survey inviting the community to provide input as to what action items in the realm of alternative assessment are most important for NISO to work on in its upcoming Phase II. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The survey is available at <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/niso-altmetrics">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/niso-altmetrics</a>. All are invited to provide input through August 29. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The NISO white paper, available at <a href="http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf">http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf</a>, summarizes community input to development of potential standards and recommended practices for research assessment metrics. The Initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended practices for alternative metrics. In Phase 1 of the project, three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted to collect input from all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, librarians, university administrators, scientific research funders, and publishers. The draft white paper is the summary of the findings from those meetings and interviews, along with the identification of potential action items for further work in Phase II of the project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More than 250 ideas were generated by participants in the meetings and interviews, and NISO condensed these to 25 action items in nine categories: definitions, research outputs, discovery, research evaluation, data quality and gaming, grouping and aggregation, context, stakeholders’ perspectives, and adoption. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The NISO Altmetrics Project webpage (<a href="http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative">www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative</a>) provides links to detailed output documents and recordings from each of the meetings and related information resources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Cynthia Hodgson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Technical Editor / Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>National Information Standards Organization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:hodgsonca@verizon.net"><span style='color:black'>hodgsonca@verizon.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>301-654-2512<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>