OJS and PlumX:Altmetrics at the University of Pittsburgh and beyondTimothy Deliyannides and Clinton GrahamUniversity Library System

University of Pittsburgh

PKP Annual General Meeting

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC October 3, 2014

Goals of the program

Serve our publishing clients– Embed PlumX Widget in all Pitt journals– Demonstrate impact of published articles

Serve the PKP community– Develop OJS Plugin for PlumX that anyone can use– Enable sharing of OJS article-level usage data with any

external metrics/analytics system

Why altmetrics?

More comprehensive– Citations, usage, social media

Covers impact of online behavior– Because scholars increasingly

work online

Measures impact immediately– Because citation counts take years to

appear in literature

Why altmetrics matter to scholars

Shows impact now, not years later– Especially helps early-career researchers

Helps researchers by generating interest from– Publishers and journal editors– Grant-funding agencies– Research institutions– Employers (current and future)

Can also help with – Reputation promotion and management

Pitt and PlumX http://plu.mx/pitt

Pitt was PlumX’s first partner, beginning in 2012

Integrated with IR, 4 subject repositories and 37 OJS journals

Traditional citations & newer metrics– Scopus, CrossRef, PubMed Central, USPTO– Twitter, Facebook– Wikipedia– Mendeley

Article-level widgets

Display item-level metrics

Embedded in– Article abstract page

for OJS journals– Institutional

repositories

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Plum Analytics Artifact Widget Settings

With this plugin enabled, the Plum Analytics Artifact widget will be added to your articles. The article's DOI will be used to link to the PlumX artifact metrics. For details and examples of the different widget settings, please see the PlumX Widget Page.

Widget Type *

Hide When Empty

Show Border

Hide the PlumPrint

Popup Alignment

Display Orientation

Width

Display Widget *

Summary

Horizontal

Below the article’s abstract

✓PopupSummaryDetails

Configuring the Plugin

OJS Header

Right Sidebar

Article Title

Article Abstract

Article Footer

Left Sidebar

OJS Footer

Above the article’s title

Below the article’s abstract

In the article’s page

footer

Plum Analytics Widget Block

Plum Analytics Widget Block

Positioning the widget

OJS

PlumX

ALM

?

API Sending the data

SUSHI-Lite

SUSHI (COUNTER)

but, Article and Web Services focused– PIRUS– REST– JSON– XML

NISO work-in-progress

SUSHI-Lite

Pitt ULS– but, any OJS host

PlumX– but, any compliant consumer

NISO (with industry standards)– So any arbitrary ALM use-case