Not long ago, Jason received an email from an Impactstory user, asking him to respond to the anti-altmetrics claims raised by librarian Jeffrey Beall in a blogpost titled, “Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea.” Beall is well-known for his blog, which he uses to expose predatory journals and publishers that abuse Open Access publishing. …
August was a huge month for open science and altmetrics. Here are some of the highlights: AAAS shrugs off scientists voicing concern More than 100 scientists signed a letter of concern addressed to AAAS regarding their new “open access” journal, Science Advances–specifically, the journal’s exorbitant publication fees and restrictive licensing requirements. As Liz Allen over …
We said we were going to have big changes live by Sept 15th when early adopters’ free trials expire. Well here’s our first one: Impactstory’s now a great place to freely share your articles, slides, videos, and more–and get viewership stats to track impacts even better. Share everything Before, product pages focused just on the …
In our last post, we hinted at the cool new set of features we’re rolling out over the next month as part of our Five Meter release. We wanted to give you the inside scoop on these features before their debut and get your feedback! Easier import to Impactstory, and keeping your profile more up-to-date …
It’s been an active couple of weeks at Impactstory. We’ve been thrilled at all the feedback we’ve received on our sustainability plan announcement, and we really appreciate the time many of you have put into sharing your thoughts with us. Inspired by some of this feedback we’ve made some new plans. To continue furthering our …
We’re pleased to announce the August Impactstory Advisor of the Month, Megan O’Donnell! As a Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University, Megan’s a campus expert on altmetrics and Open Science. Since joining the Advisors program, Megan has educated other campus librarians on altmetrics and Impactstory, and is currently hard at work planning an “intro …
Don’t have time to stay on top of the most important Open Science and Altmetrics news? We’ve gathered the very best of the month in this post. Read on! Impactstory announces a new sustainability model: $5/month subscriptions Last week, we announced that we’re switching our non-profit sustainability model to a subscription plan: $5 per month …
Starting today, Impactstory profiles cost $5 per month. Why? Because our goal has always been for Impactstory to support a second scientific revolution, transforming how academia finds, shares, understands, and rewards research impact. That’s why we’re a nonprofit, and always will be. But (news flash), that transformation is not going to happen overnight. We need …
We’re launching a new feature today to make it even easier to use Impactstory: the Impactstory Knowledge Base. We’ve seeded the Knowledge Base with answers to users’ frequently asked questions: how to create, populate and update your Impactstory profile, embed your Impactstory profile in other websites, and more. And we’ll be adding more articles–particularly those …
Google Scholar Profiles are useful, but are not as good as they could be. In our last post, we identified their limitations: dirty data, a closed platform, and a narrow understanding of what constitutes scholarly impact. That said, Google Scholar Profiles are still an important tool for thousands of academics worldwide. So, how can researchers …