In this instantpresenter webinar on Article Level Metrics Martin Fenner (PLOS (article-level-metrics.plos.org) Article Level Metrics Project) talks about open metrics for the timely, comprehensive and reproducible evaluation of the impact of research and about ALM FOSS he developed: Lagotto that allows a user to aggregate relevant performance data on research articles, including how often an article has been viewed, cited, saved, discussed and recommended; and ALM Reports. Using the Lagotto software, the Public Knowledge Project is providing an ALM service for publishers running Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Juan Pablo Alperin talks about PKP’s Article Level Metrics Service he runs for OJS-based journals. The main motivation behind this pilot service was to offer ALMs and altmetrics for developing countries.

Altmertics/ALM:

• provide new ways to gain and demonstrate visibility;
• help good articles to stand out from journal and researchers to stand out for good work.
• help to count some forms of public impact;
• provide incentive to gear research to public(local?) interests; and
• move away from dependencies on measures biased against the South.
• Altmetrics may not tell us much in the developing country context yet, but it's definitely worth trying.

PKP launched ALM using PLOS Article Level Metrics/Lagotto software giving priority to the developing world and to the small publishers. The plan is to make these metrics prominent
on article pages and hopefully to:

• change culture around communicating research;
• open minds to alternative measures of impact;
• attract readers to a different group of journals; and
• give an incentive to do research of public interest.

PKP runs this as a pilot project and ALM plugin has two parts:

• Usage Metrics: any journal editor/publisher can show these
• ALMs: these require a little bit of setup