Recently we announced a partnership with ACI Information Group to bring more blog post mentions to PlumX. ACI individually curates blogs through researchers with expertise in each blog’s topic or field of study in a variety of academic and research disciplines. Read More
This guest blog is written by Andy Herzog, Department Head of Faculty Services and Online Engagement for the University of Texas Arlington Libraries. He is heading up a program to help support faculty members through the process of promotion and tenure.Read More
We recently created an infographic to describe the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In that process we took a look at how many books and book chapters PlumX tracks. As you can see above, PlumX tracks 4.1 million books and book chapters. Read More
We recently created an Infographic to describe what research PlumX tracks and discovered some interesting facts about what our customers consider research. Just two examples of different artifacts we’ve heard about recently from our customers are a YouTube video of a musical score created by a music professor and an important book written by a psychology faculty member. Read More
Our customer, the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Levy Library, is working with their departments to drive deeper into their university faculty structures to educate researchers and recruit them to understanding and embracing altmetrics. Mount Sinai’s Levy Library is featuring Article Spotlights each month using PlumX. Read More
As fall arrives, I’m looking back at some of the conferences and meetings that we attended over the summer. The VIVO annual conference was in Denver in August, and for us, it was both successful and enlightening. The conference centered on people interesting in or already using VIVO and offered a collaborative atmosphere to talk about adopting and implementing VIVO and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing. Read More
The Analytics Reports within the PlumX Suite help users gain insights, drive decision-making and understand where the interesting stories in a body of research are taking place. Two recently-released improvements to these reports add flexibility and allow you to see and dive into the altmetrics for your research corpus, Read More
Research Altmetrics to Enhance Communication and Discovery in China’s Tech and Science Communities We are now working with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) to build the ISTIC-EBSCO Joint Laboratory for Big Data Research and Discovery promoting the academic research of big data in China. Read More