(10 June 2015) Heather Coates guest writes in the Altmetric blog about successful altmetrics outreach. She is a tenure-track librarian, a practitioner-researcher, who needs to know how the scholarly ecosystem works. In practice this needs an understanding of how scholarly products are created, disseminated, used, curated, and evaluated.
The article covers helping faculty make strategic decisions about how to disseminate their scholarship; and how to become an altmetrics expert.
Read her article here.