1. OJS and PlumX: Altmetrics at the University of Pittsburgh and beyond
Timothy Deliyannides and Clinton Graham
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
PKP Annual General Meeting
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC October 3, 2014

2. Goals of the program Serve our publishing clients
Embed PlumX Widget in all Pitt journals
Demonstrate impact of published articles
Serve the PKP community
Develop OJS Plugin for PlumX that anyone can use
Enable sharing of OJS article-level usage data with any external metrics/analytics system

3. Why altmetrics? More comprehensive Covers impact of online behavior
Citations, usage, social media
Covers impact of online behavior
Because scholars increasingly work online
Measures impact immediately
Because citation counts take years to appear in literature

4. Why altmetrics matter to scholars
Shows impact now, not years later
Especially helps early-career researchers
Helps researchers by generating interest from
Publishers and journal editors
Grant-funding agencies
Research institutions
Employers (current and future)
Can also help with
Reputation promotion and management

5. Pitt and PlumX http://plu.mx/pitt
Pitt was PlumX’s first partner, beginning in 2012
Integrated with IR, 4 subject repositories and 37 OJS journals
Traditional citations & newer metrics
Scopus, CrossRef, PubMed Central, USPTO
Twitter, Facebook
Wikipedia
Mendeley
Gathers information in one place (profiles) while scattering and sharing it in other places (widgets)
Does not include some proprietary data – some entities like Web of Science/Thomson-Reuters and Google Scholar have not shared this information with Plum as of yet
We were early partners with Plum Analytics (2012) in using their altmetrics service, PlumX
We are focusing at present on using the PlumX widget to share altmetrics and convey the impact of Open Access to our students and faculty

6. Here’s a small sampling of some of the metrics that PlumX employs—from 37 different sources as of May 2014
Find out more here:

7. Article-level widgets
Display item-level metrics
Embedded in
Article abstract page for OJS journals
Institutional repositories
Older-style Plum widget on the left
Newer style “Plumprint” widgets on the right and bottom

9. Configuring the Plugin
Home > User > Journal Manager > System Plugins > Generic Plugins > Plum Analytics Artifact Widget Settings
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 PlumX artifact metrics. For details and examples of the different widget settings, please see the PlumX Widget Page.
Widget Type *
Summary
Horizontal
Below the article’s abstract ✓
Popup
Summary
Details
Hide When Empty
Show Border
This is an example of the plugin setup which the journal manager will use to configure the display of the PlumX widget. Dropdowns and checkboxes provide a simple interface to set the HTML options for the standard widget.
Hide the PlumPrint
Popup Alignment
Display Orientation
Width
Display Widget *

10. Positioning the widget
OJS Header
Left Sidebar
Article Title
Plum Analytics Widget Block
Above the article’s title
Right Sidebar
Article Abstract
The plugin can place the widget in a number of the OJS template hooks, or in a widget block, which can be manipulated like any of the other block plugins.
Below the article’s abstract
Article Footer
In the article’s page footer
Plum Analytics Widget Block
OJS Footer

11. Sending the data ? API OJS ALM PlumX
The core issue remains: how to get the metrics from OJS to Plum?
Currently, journal managers need to export statistics by hand from OJS and upload them to a PlumX AWS instance.
A preferable method would be to enable PlumX to harvest these statistics via an API in OJS.

12. SUSHI-Lite SUSHI (COUNTER) but, Article and Web Services focused
PIRUS
REST
JSON
XML
NISO work-in-progress
SUSHI-Lite is the candidate protocol.

13. SUSHI-Lite Pitt ULS PlumX NISO (with industry standards)
but, any OJS host
PlumX
but, any compliant consumer
NISO (with industry standards)
So any arbitrary ALM use-case