Even more journals display ALMs! | The Official PLOS Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-10-11

Summary:

"In 2009, PLOS became the first (and remains the only) publisher to launch an open source Article-Level Metrics (ALM) app to help other publishers implement ALM on their journals. Now we are pleased to announce that two leading organizations are implementing ALMs using the PLOS open source app. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP, provides software used by thousands of journals and hosting services to publishers like Co-Action Publishing) and Copernicus Publications (an innovative Open Access publisher) are both launching ALM programs based on the PLOS app. ALM’s give publishers’ critical insight into the effectiveness of their programs, including highlighting articles that generate the most activity. Other publishers that have introduced ALMs include Biomed Central, eLife, Nature Publishing Group and PeerJ, among others ..."

Link:

http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2013/10/even-more-journals-display-alms/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.plos oa.tools oa.floss oa.apps oa.altmetrics oa.copernicus oa.pkp oa.metrics oa.announcements

Date tagged:

10/11/2013, 09:58

Date published:

10/11/2013, 05:58