Author Archives: Richard Cave

Eating the PLOS API Dogfood

Posted on August 30, 2013 | 2 comments

The PLOS ALM API is used by the PLOS journal websites, ALM Reports, and the PLOS Search indexer, altogether more than 8 million API requests every month. Martin Fenner wrote a post on his work with the PLOS ALM API. He talks about making an API that is simple, fast, and fun to use.

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Posted in ALM API, Examples, Search API

Upcoming Release of ALM 2.0 on July 31

Posted on July 18, 2012 | 1 comment

We are excited to announce the upcoming release of version 2.0 of the PLoS Article Level Metrics application on July 31. Version 2.0 includes many changes under the hood, and now uses Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2. The biggest improvements are in how the application processes requests to external services in the background. As with the ALM 1.x application, we will make the source code available at https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm.

The release of ALM 2.0 also includes a few changes to the API, and starting July 31, requests to the PLoS ALM API at http://alm.plos.org have to use the new API format. We have documented the changes in PLoS ALM 2.0 API Changes and at https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm/wiki/API. Please ask any questions you might have in the PLoS API Developers Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/plos-api-developers.

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Winners of the Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle

Posted on November 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

PLoS and Mendeley, the popular reference manager and academic social network, teamed up to create a Binary Battle contest to build the best apps that make science more open using PLoS and/or Mendeley’s APIs (Application Programming Interface). For more information about the contest, see the Binary Battle website.

Grand prize
openSNP
openSNP
Share your personal genome from 23andMe or deCODEme to find the latest relevant research and let scientists discover new genetic associations. “The APIs of Mendeley and PLoS and all submissions in the Binary Battle have shown how creative people can re-use the data APIs in many ways.” Bastian Greshake at openSNP.

Runner up

PaperCritic
Post-publication peer review in an open environment. Rate papers, write critical reviews or read those from others.

Extra prize
rOpenSci

R-based tools to facilitate Open Science; including R packages for both Mendeley and PLoS.

Finalists

Collabgraph

Visualize who is collaborating in your research field with data from your Mendeley library or BibTeX file.
Collabgraph

Droideley
Read your Mendeley library on the go with this client for Android mobiles.
Droideley

KLEENK
KLEENK

Make “smart” connections between articles, books and any other research object and learn from connections made by other researchers.
KLEENK

PLoS Impact Explorer
See which research is getting the most buzz online from news outlets, blogs, Twitter and elsewhere, all in one place.
PLoS Impact Explorer

ReaderMeter
Research impact is now crowd sourced. Future impact of research is estimated using real-time bookmarking aggregated from Mendeley.
ReaderMeter