Robin Champieux, the Scholarly Communications Librarian at OHSU, gave an excellent presentation at the ER&L Conference in Austin, TX a couple weeks ago. We’ve been getting a lot of requests for Robin’s presentation, and the slides are now available here. Read More

Recently I was invited to speak at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool’s TEC Conference. “TEC” stands for “Technology. Entrepreneurship. Creativity.” My presentation, entitled “Librarian Entrepreneur—Oxymoron?” was a fun opportunity not only to discuss my experience co-founding Plum Analytics, but also to look back further to my start at the University of Washington iSchool and subsequent projects and products along the way. Read More

The term altmetrics means different things to different people. At Plum Analytics it means any metrics about any type of research output. It is common knowledge that the ubiquitous use of the Internet has made sharing everything, including research, simple. With all of the different ways to share output come different ways to understand the impact and stories of research. Read More

PlumX tracks 5 categories of metrics:  usage, mentions, social media, citations, and captures.  Metrics that we categorize as captures are when an individual is interacting with research online and “captures” it for later.  Examples of capture metrics that are already a part of PlumX are: Bookmarking the page on Delicious Adding it to Elsevier’s Mendeley as a reader Favoriting a slide presentation on Slideshare Favoriting a video on YouTube Subscribing to a channel on Vimeo or YouTube Followers, Read More

We recently updated the types of artifacts that we support to better reflect the diversity of research documents that our customers want to track. Giving customers flexibility in how they manage their research output collection is a hallmark of PlumX, and is critical to being able to do an accurate assessment. Read More

  Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), recently reviewed PlumX for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). In this review, Robin does an excellent job of describing PlumX and what it does. Read More

Library Journal and Plum Analytics are sponsoring a webinar titled “Practical Uses of Altmetrics” on Wednesday, Feb. 11th at 1:00 PM EST. This webinar features two PlumX customers: Tim Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head, Read More

Mike Buschman, Co-Founder and Chief Product Office of Plum Analytics was recently interviewed for The Charleston Advisor. Some highlights from the interview include: “It is true that traditionally the term “altmetrics” refers to Social Media… As such, Read More

The rise of the Internet and increasing journal prices helped pave the way for the open access movement. Now the rise of networked communication and the associated metrics can provide more advantages for researchers to use their institutions’ repositories for open access versions of their research papers. Read More