Using Research Impact Tools to Create Scholarly Communication Reports for Humanities Librarians

Abstract

As subject-specialist librarians are increasingly expected to integrate scholarly communication competencies into their skillset, humanities specialists face the added challenge of addressing the insufficient coverage of humanities scholarship in the available citation databases. The purpose of this project was to develop and document an approach for creating discipline-specific scholarly communication reports for humanities liaison librarians. This methodology offers a practical way for liaisons to integrate bibliometric methods into their work while also creating a useful picture of scholarship at the departmental level.