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Looking forward to seeing what people do with it... - Peter Binfield

Absolutely, and wouldn't it appropriate for this user-generated video to be linked directly to the Manu. in question. Wait? Holy Spiderz... how did this happen :-) http://www.plosone.org/annotat... - Graham Steel

Spinning (sorry) back to PLoS EVERYONE from 2 days ago, it's worth tying in the post Worth a Thousand Threads http://everyone.plos.org/2009... into this one. Having re-read it, I see that there is a somewhat sombre note to this discovery and I must pass on my regards to Dr Matjaž Kunter in respect of the sad loss of their best friend Andrej Komac who died in an accident at the time of the discoveries. This I have now done. - Graham Steel

Journal site down for "routine maintainence". Disappointing. - Bill Hooker

It was less than an hour though while we did our latest sprint upgrade. We now have all the usage data on all the articles... - Peter Binfield

I demand 100% uptime! No excuses! (Yeah, OK, I was a bit of an ass there.) - Bill Hooker

seems to show that more recent articles have higher rates of PDF downloads - Mike Chelen

Yep, all data in this sheet was only up to July 31st 2009 - Peter Binfield

Shows that PLoS One has an overall equal rate of citation to PLoS Biology, and that more of One's articles have been published in a recent year. - Mike Chelen

Peter & Cameron: ah yes, there is history data is in the other sheets, hadn't even started looking past the first one =) - Mike Chelen

Peter, how will citing one point in such a process go? http://ff.im/8HPXx - Claudia Koltzenburg

Good point Claudia. I queried the SGC people and they will consider this for a future release. - Peter Binfield

is this file CC Attribution like the rest of PLoS, or non-copyrightable since it is data? this always confuses me :D - Mike Chelen

I guess it is CC0, that is the recommended CC for data - http://creativecommons.org/publicd... - Peter Binfield

Peter: that is great, could someone add a note to the website? thanks very much! - Mike Chelen

Not yet, but it's probably coming. I suspect the reaction will be equal to whatever the current reaction is to preprint distribution. - D0r0th34

Well - good luck to her, she has my support! Funny how when there is a public health issue closed-access journals will often make their articles on the topic Open Access... - Peter Binfield

CCK node types available at http://github.com/mchelen... and CSV format data at http://github.com/mchelen... . - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Mike - in the next couple of weeks we will add all the 'missing' usage data (pre-July 05 and 1st 200 PLoS ONE articles). I will ping you when we have it in an excel sheet. - Peter Binfield

it looks like semantic mediawiki? - Mike Chelen

We didnt work with them on this (other than to have some early meetings). I suspect they just copied and pasted... However, it can be extracted from our XML file of course. - Peter Binfield

not so disdainful of the PLoS model now, are we? ;) - Wladimir Labeikovsky

See: http://network.nature.com/groups... - Maxine

Truly Awesome...... - Graham Steel

Grab a screen shot and send it to us! - Peter Binfield

w00t! - Bora Zivkovic

"Impressed by PLoS style, our university here decided to teach Open Access, creative reuse and article level metrics to entry level PhD students in Life Sciences. I am grateful to the university authorities for enabling us to direct such a timely and important course for the first time in the history of graduate teaching in India; see the course curriculum approved by the university below. I hope many other universities and institutes will be able to replicate this course." - Graham Steel

The same somebody owes me a new brain after I bleach this one to try to get rid of the goddam earworm! - Bill Hooker

"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organisation committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature freely accessible to everyone via open access publishing. As recently announced they have just published the first article-level metrics (e.g. web server logs and related information) for all articles in their library. This is novel, interesting and potentially useful data, not currently made publicly available by other publishers. Here is a  selection of some of the data, taken from the full dataset here (large file), which includes the “top ten” papers by viewing statistics." - Duncan Hull from Bookmarklet

@pedro @neil @boscoh I deliberately picked weird papers :) @Graham if the @Binfield hypothesis is correct, traditional publishers are reluctant to give out this sort of information because they are afraid of what it might show... - Duncan Hull

impact factor/citation/ usage - Jill O'Neill

And we are also well aware of COUNTER. We adhered to the COUNTER 3 standards for our usage stats and we have been in close discussions with people (Peter Shepherd etc) working at COUNTER and PIRUS (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwed...). We also hope and expect that all publishers will be doing this very soon! - Peter Binfield

It's coming. One thing at a time... - Peter Binfield from iPhone

@p_binfield looking forward to using it :) - Frank

"PLoS has ... 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. " - Shirley Wu from Bookmarklet

that's great, very convenient - Mike Chelen

More info at: http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/ as well as at http://www.plosone.org/static... (same page exists for each journal) and at our FAQ: http://www.plos.org/about.... Then we have Summary data tables at: http://www.plosbiology.org/static... (same page exists for each journal) and we are providing the entire data set as a download at: http://www.plos.org/downloa... - Peter Binfield

Nice ONE !! - Graham Steel

Full announcement info is now at: http://everyone.plos.org/2009... - Peter Binfield

Limitations: (1) 140 chars is too limited to accomodate a typical URI, (2) needs to be coupled to author ID, (3) only one rating dimension as of now. - Daniel Mietchen

Wonder what might be a good basis for building a similar service? - Mike Chelen

Yes we do. Front page of what? - Peter Binfield from iPhone

lol @ Egon :-) - Björn Brembs

Why will the 3D structure not be embedded into the PDF? - Daniel Mietchen

Peter, you said it would be included as a screenshot. To me, this simply emphasizes the flatness of the paper medium, but when reading pdfs offline, 3D embeds would certainly be handy too: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal... . There are also some LaTeX packages like http://www.ctan.org/tex-arc... . - Daniel Mietchen

@Peter did I mention yet that Chemical blogspace (http://cb.openmolecules.net/) uses the same API as Postgenomic, and that it has many chemistry blogs that Euan did not add to Postgenomic? - Egon Willighagen

@Egon - can you email me (can't find your email...)? - Peter Binfield

The clearest, most nicely written post on the entire issue. Well done! - Bora Zivkovic

I think recent interview with Pete Binfield is a good addition to this thread at this point: http://network.nature.com/people... - Bora Zivkovic

FriendFeed as a tool to organize journal clubs: http://network.nature.com/people... - Martin Fenner

All RSS Feeds are at: http://www.plosone.org/static... (hint: follow the icon that says "RSS" in the top right hand corner). We break our content out into 50 odd subject areas. These feeds include the abstracts and so if you wanted to further filter your RSS feed then you could use Yahoo Pipes running against a specific feed with a specific keyword match - Peter Binfield

that's a nice review, too bad he didn't use the ResearchBlogging tags :( - Christina Pikas

@Mr Gunn: I wouldn't call the study flawed, just the ridiculous media interpretations. It is important to not restrict the food intake in a study like this because the point is to see whether according to recommendations, simply exercising will induce weight loss. And the results corroborate other research; if you just tell people to exercise they will compensate or overcompensate... more... - Colby

I would hope that it would soon matter more what you publish than where you publish. - Björn Brembs from iPhone

Why don't we stop peer-review already? Heck, if journals are such a great measure of quality, why don't we stop reading or writing papers altogether? We have these great professional editors who know exactly what we want: why don't we just give them a ring, tell them what we found out and then they can write a short news-and-views article about our work. That's the only thing anybody... more... - Björn Brembs

You know you've made it when you appear in a PhDcomics strip. Although I'm not sure whether it's fame or infamy... - Bill Hooker

"Infamy infamy, they've all got it infamy" - Peter Binfield

*groan* - Bill Hooker

All good points. - Neil Saunders

the accuracy of a metric depends on the underlying information being shared to allow replication and a deeper understanding - Mike Chelen

Almost all papers, in all journals, have been rejected from somewhere else. Our bar is "is it science, is it conducted properly, is it reported properly, and do the conclusions follow the data etc" - the bar is not "is it sexy, or impactful, or a major advance". At the same time, we are not CNS - as we are not selective. CNS combined publish just 5,000 articles a year between them but... more... - Peter Binfield

I often say something along the lines of what Bill said. The environment is changing. To succeed in the new environment, one has to change not just one's publishing habits, but also rethink how to do research and how to write it. Thus, people who think about it early on will be able to gain advantage over people who are still stuck in the old ways of doing things. As the new environment... more... - Bora Zivkovic