Demonstrating journal impact Plum X and OJS at

Demonstrating journal impact: Plum. X and OJS at the University of Pittsburgh Timothy Deliyannides Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing University Library System University of Pittsburgh Library Publishing Coalition Webinar April 26, 2016, 3: 00 PM EST

Plum. X at Pitt § Plum Analytics’ first customer (2012) § Plum. X is integrated with: – Institutional Repository (d-scholarship. pitt. edu) – 4 subject-based repositories – Article-level ‘Plumprint’ appears for every digital object § Aggregated views by: – School, Program, Research Group § Researcher profiles demonstrate total impact

ALTMETRICS for PUBLISHERS

What’s different about these new metrics? § More comprehensive – Citations, usage, social media § Covers online behavior – Because scholars increasingly work online § Measures impact immediately – Because citation counts take years to appear in literature

What can publishers do with these metrics? § Demonstrate value to stakeholders – Authors and their institutions – Editors and their sponsors (scholarly societies, universities) – Research funders § Gain insight – Improve marketing/promotion strategies – Identify top content – Learn about what’s important to your publishing partners § Improve quality of service offering

PLUMX and OJS: How they work together at Pitt § Plum. X harvests new articles published in OJS using OAI PMH protocol and begins tracking metrics § Plum. X widget is embedded in article abstract page using the OJS Plum. X plugin § The Plum Print displays current metrics each time a reader views the article abstract § Plum. X Web site provides aggregated views of analytic data by journal title, volume, publication year, etc.

ARTICLE LEVEL METRICS

AGGREGATED JOURNAL METRICS

OJS and PLUMX Under the hood

Pitt’s work on integrating OJS & Plum. X § Plum. X plugin for OJS – Embeds Plum. X widget in any OJS journal – Developed by Clinton Graham, University of Pittsburgh § SUSHI-Lite compliance for OJS – Improves harvesting of OJS usage data at the article level – Can be used by any external system (such as Plum Analytics) – Developed by Clinton Graham, University of Pittsburgh

The Plum. X plugin for OJS § Requirements: – OJS 2. 4 or a later release of OJS 2. x – Articles must have DOIs – Subscription to Plum. X § Setup: follow the instructions at https: //github. com/ulsdevteam/ojs-plum-plugin – Install as a ‘generic plugin’ in OJS – Log in as Journal Manager and enable the plugin – Configure the widget display – highly customizable!

Configuring the Plugin Home > User > Journal Manager > System Plugins > Generic Plugins > 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 Plum. X artifact metrics. For details and examples of the different widget settings, please see the Plum. X Widget Page. Widget Type * Hide When Empty Summary ✓ Show Border Hide the Plum. Print Popup Alignment Display Orientation Horizontal Width Display Widget * Below the article’s abstract

Positioning the widget OJS Header Plum Analytics Widget Block Left Sidebar Above the article’s title Article Title Article Abstract Below the article’s abstract In the article’s page footer Right Sidebar Article Footer OJS Footer Plum Analytics Widget Block

OJS and SUSHI-Lite

SUSHI-Lite compliance in OJS § Alternative to the OJS COUNTER interface § SUSHI-Lite focuses on article-level usage § Uses standard Web services (REST, JSON, etc. ) § Ideal for on-demand just-in-time usage harvesting § A better way to share usage data from OJS journals

SUSHI-Lite Plugin for OJS § Developed by Pitt, but can be used by any OJS host § Used by Plum. X to harvest OJS usage data § Based on NISO standard § Can be used by any external system to harvest OJS usage data § Setup: follow the instructions at https: //github. com/ulsdevteam/ojs-sushi. Lite-plugin

More about Plum. X at Pitt URL for this presentation: http: //d-scholarship. pitt. edu/27813 Collister, Lauren Brittany and Deliyannides, Timothy S. (2016) Altmetrics: Documenting the Story of Research. Against the Grain, 28 (1). pp. 16 -18. ISSN 1043 -2094. http: //d-scholarship. pitt. edu/27555 Collister, Lauren Brittany and Graham, Clinton T. (2016) Building a Bridge for Metrics with SUSHI-Lite. Poster presented at SPARC Meeting on Openness in Research and Education, 3/7/2016 -3/8/2016, San Antonio, TX. http: //d-scholarship. pitt. edu/26874 Deliyannides, Timothy S. (2015) Practical uses of Altmetrics at the University of Pittsburgh. Webcast presented by Library Journal and Plum Analytics, February 11, 2015. http: //d-scholarship. pitt. edu/23986

THANK YOU Tim Deliyannides tsd@pitt. edu @deliyannides Plum. X at Pitt: http: //plu. mx/pitt Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing http: //www. library. pitt. edu/oscp @OSCP_Pitt