This guide was created by Impactstory, a non-profit whose mission is to help researchers & librarians learn about and use altmetrics.

Impactstory--the only non-profit devoted exclusively to altmetrics--created this guide as part of our organization's mission to help researchers and librarians learn about and use altmetrics. It's written by Stacy Konkiel, an academic librarian who is also Impactstory's Director of Marketing & Research.

This is a good guide on altmetrics from Northwestern University.