Research Reveals PlumX from Plum Analytics is Not Just Altmetrics Recently, Plum Analytics President Andrea Michalek spent time with author J. Michael Lindsay, MSIS, AHIP, Associate Professor, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Graduate Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Read More

The Levy Library of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a PlumX customer, recently participated in authoring an article, “The Complexity of Measuring the Impact of Books,” published online in June and in print in Publishing Research Quarterly, Read More

In June we announced that EBSCO Discovery Service^TM (EDS) users would start seeing the Plum^TM Print in the result lists. Earlier, we added the Plum Print to the result list in the CINAHL database on EBSCOhost. Read More

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

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

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

Usage data statistics are a valuable metric to researchers, second only to citations. Unlike other altmetrics providers, Plum Analytics has long included usage statistics as an important category of altmetrics. Now, research usage data for one of the largest Chinese e-journals content collections is available through the PlumX altmetrics suite. Read More

On January 12, 2016, President Obama held his final State of the Union speech. In this speech he committed the United States to a “cancer moonshot.” Click here to view an excerpt of that part of the speech from CNN. Read More