Link: Plum Analytics OAWeek Keynote at WSU It’s always fun to see things from the perspective of someone in the audience while we give a presentation. Here is a storify of the tweets that Roger Whitson made during Mike’s keynote at Washington State University during Open Access Week. Read More

Today is day 2 of Open Access Week. We support open access, so we are doing a lot to participate in Open Access Week. You can read about our activities here. Yesterday we kicked off the week with a Webinar titled “Measuring Impact: Combining Traditional and Non-Traditional Metrics.” We had so many people sign up that we needed to upgrade our webinar room. Read More

Last week Mike participated in the first meeting of the NISO meeting on Altmetrics, and I then presented at the PLOS Article Level Metrics (ALM) workshop that took place on the following two days at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Read More

Last week, coinciding with our launch of our widget platform, we reached the milestone of moving PlumX out of beta. The earliest adopters of our research dashboards, the University of Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian, have made their PlumX directories public. Read More

Over the past 6 months, we’ve been quietly improving upon our functionality on how to embed PlumX data about research impact into other applications and websites. This week, we added a feature that puts our widgets front and center in PlumX, Read More

Open Access Week is almost here, and we’ll be celebrating with some exciting events. We are kicking off the week with a free webinar titled “Measuring Impact: Combining Traditional and Non-Traditional Metrics.”  During this webinar you can learn about how using both traditional and altmetrics can help you evaluate and fine-tune your open access initiatives.   Read More

I had the pleasure of attending the VIVO conference in St. Louis of the first time this year.  I think one thing that is remarkable about the VIVO community is how much it truly is a welcoming group.  From the weekly implementation calls to the face-to-face conference, Read More

At Plum Analytics, we are constantly adding metrics and features to help our users get a thorough picture of research, researchers and the groups to which they belong. To that end, the Plum^TM Analytics product, PlumX, is now utilizing the OCLC WorldCat API to capture library holdings.   Read More

We are happy to welcome Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to the growing list of Plum^TM Analytics customers. OHSU contacted us because they recognized that many of their faculty members were working within new communities with new modes of communication that old ways of looking at things did not capture.   Read More