1. Get More Value From Your Institutional Repository: PlumX Metrics
David Kennedy
Regional Sales Manager - Southeast

2. Provides comprehensive metrics for your Institutional Repository
PlumX Metrics:
Provides comprehensive metrics for your Institutional Repository

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4. How Can PlumX Metrics Help?
Increase the value of your Institutional Repository to the Institution
Your Intuitional Repository’s role in helping Researchers promote their work
Provide reward for Researchers to deposit their work

5. Institutional Repositories
Libraries are often responsible for hosting research output for their institution
Many researchers view depositing their output as administrative overhead CARROT VS. THE STICK
Mandates are on the rise
Compliance is difficult to enforce

6. Answer the questions And tell the stories About your Institutional Repository output

7. Samples of PlumX Metrics Sources
Amazon
Bit.ly
CrossRef
Delicious
Dryad
dSpace
EBSCO
ePrints
Facebook
figshare
Github
Goodreads
Google+
Medwave
Mendeley
PLOS
PubMed Central
Reddit
Research Blogging
Scopus
SlideShare
SourceForge
Stack Overflow
Twitter
USPTO
Vimeo
Wikipedia
Worldcat (OCLC)
YouTube

8. All Types of Research Artifacts
Articles
Blog posts
Book chapters
Books
Cases
Clinical Trials
Conference Papers
Data Sets
Figures
Grants
Interviews
Letters
Media
Patents
Posters
Presentations
Reports
Source Code
Theses / Dissertations
Videos
Web Pages

9. URL ArXiv ID SSRN ID DOI Video ID Repository URL GitHub Id PMID PMCID
ArXiv ID
SSRN ID
DOI
/journal.pone
Video ID
vimeo.com/
Repository URL
GitHub Id
cowboyd/therubyracer
PMID
PMCID
PMC
ISBN
Handle
OCLC

10. Examples

11. University of Pittsburgh EPrints

13. START END Repository URL URL DOI URL PMCID PMID URL >20 URLS URL
START
URL
DOI
/journal.pone
URL
PMCID
PMC
PMID
URL
>20
URLS
URL
END

14. Visualizing Impact: Plum Print
Includes the 5 categories of metrics
Circles dynamically change size based on metrics in each category

15. At-a-glance insight into relative impact
Each Plum Print looks different depending on the metrics for the artifact
At-a-glance insight into relative impact
PlumX Metrics:
Embed Plum Prints into your Institutional Repository

16. Integrating the Plum Print
In CINAHL Complete now
Coming Soon: Expanding to all databases

17. University of Manitoba DSpace

18. University of Rhode Island: Digital Commons

19. More Than Articles Datasets Theses and dissertations
Increasing mandates about data
PlumX gathers and categorizes metrics
Theses and dissertations
Books & book chapters
Citation counts do not do books justice
Never have & never will
We need new book metrics
Important to Social Sciences and Humanities
Books are often the seminal work from these faculty members

20. In the first two months after we put PlumX Metrics in our IR, compliance increased from 6% to 13%. We expect this to continue to rise.”
Dr. Bruce Herbert, Director of Scholarly Communications
Texas A&M University

21. There’s a new way to tell the story

22. Answer the questions and tell the stories about your research
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