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crln-9024	Sanderson, Beth; Rigby, Miriam	We’ve Reddit, have you?: What librarians can learn from a site full of memes	2013-11-01	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2066	89	53	In the future, this has the potential to have a large impact on scholars who are increas- ingly using more holistic methods of measur- ing their research impact and computing their impact factor through things like Altmetric5 and ImpactStory6—Reddit is one of the social media sources being accounted for via these methods.7 Reddit also acts to increase these alternative impact factor scores because, as noted regarding Reddit’s impact on items going viral, the community can explode the visibility of research because people use it as an aggregate to get information to post to their own blogs, Twitter feeds, and other me- dia venues, such as news blogs and articles. Reddit’s “information literacy” functions much like a herd-immunity; enough people are acting to protect the herd most of the time.	cache/crln-9024.pdf	txt/crln-9024.txt