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Telling the Story of Research: PlumX at the University of Pittsburgh Lauren B. Collister, Scholarly Communications Librarian University Library System, University of Pittsburgh lbcollister@pitt.edu | Twitter @parnopaeus Overview


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Telling the Story of Research: PlumX at the University of Pittsburgh

Lauren B. Collister, Scholarly Communications Librarian University Library System, University of Pittsburgh lbcollister@pitt.edu | Twitter @parnopaeus

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Overview

  • Introduction to Plum Analytics
  • Why we chose PlumX
  • Example/Demo

– School view – Researcher profile – Artifacts – Widget

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PlumX Introduction

  • Tracks DOIs and standard

numbers, but also URLs & profiles.

  • Can track many outputs beyond

articles/books.

  • Comprehensive metrics from over

30 online sources.

  • Multiple profile views: researcher,

department, school, and institution-level. http://plumanalytics.com

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Other Plum Products

More information: http://plumanalytics.com/products/

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Why we chose PlumX

  • More capacity for humanities / social

sciences (our main user group).

– Books, URLs, RSS feeds, videos, digital

  • bjects.

– No DOI needed.

  • Useful widget integration.

– Repository (Eprints) – Journals (OJS)

  • Many profile views -> flexible use.

– Individual authors, departments, chairs, schools, research groups, etc.

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Examples

  • University of Pittsburgh: http://plu.mx/pitt
  • School of Law:

http://plu.mx/pitt/g/divisions/sch-law

  • Professor Michael Madison:

http://plu.mx/pitt/u/pitt-madison

  • Pitt Law Review example:

http://bit.ly/LawReviewEx

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http://bit.ly/PlumXPitt1

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http://bit.ly/PlumXPitt2

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http://bit.ly/PlumXPitt3

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The Journal Widget

Pitt Law Review, “Reading Professor Obama: Race and the American Constitutional Tradition”

http://bit.ly/LawReviewEx

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Pitt Law Review, “Reading Professor Obama: Race and the American Constitutional Tradition” http://bit.ly/LawReviewEx

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Summary

  • PlumX offers great capacity for humanities

and social science scholars.

  • The widget plays nicely with a variety of

software that libraries already use.

  • Multiple profile views give different people
  • ptions for using the service.
  • Collaboration = success!
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Thank You!

Contact me any time: Lauren B. Collister lbcollister@pitt.edu Twitter @parnopaeus