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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Major Development by Public Library Of Science (PLoS) and
Article-Level Metrics !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submitted by Mark Patterson on Wed, 2009-09-16 11:10.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re
delighted to announce that all seven PLoS journals will now provide online
usage data for published articles. With this addition, the suite of metrics on
PLoS articles now includes measures of: online usage; citations from the
scholarly literature; social bookmarks; blog coverage; and the Comments, Notes
and ‘Star’ ratings that have been made on the article.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[snip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PLoS has therefore embarked on a program to aggregate a
range of available data about an article and place that data on the article
itself. The data are found on the new tab called ‘Metrics’, available on all
articles. A reader can now scan the various metrics to determine the extent to
which the article has been viewed, cited, covered in the media and so forth.
With the addition of usage data to the article-level metrics we have taken
another step towards providing the community with valuable data that can be
used and analyzed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>[snip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In order to make article-level metrics as open and useful as
possible, we are providing our entire dataset as a downloadable spreadsheet and
we encourage interested researchers to download the data and perform their own
analyses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>[snip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It’s also important to emphasize that online usage should
not be seen as an absolute indicator of quality for any given article, and such
data must be interpreted with caution. To provide additional context and to aid
interpretation, we have provided a series of summary tables indicating the
average usage of categories of article (grouped by age, journal and topic
area).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Links to A Zipped Downloadable Spreadsheet Of The Entire
Dataset, Summary of Tables Indicating The Average Usage Of Categories Of
Article (Grouped By Age, Journal And Topic Area),FAQ, And A Background Posting,
Etc. Are Available At<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ph85db">http://tinyurl.com/ph85db</a>
]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> /Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gerry McKiernan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Science and Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa State University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ames IA 50011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a
href="mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu">gerrymck@iastate.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“Is There Knowledge We Are Not Meant To Know?”<o:p></o:p></p>
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