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3. Players, tools and business models
There are a variety of platforms and tools for alternative data, not all with the same sources, nor the same specialties, and the services offered are aimed at different audiences: researchers, publishers, institutions, funders. The main players (table 12 ) are :
the Public Library of Science (PLoS) with its Article-Level Metrics (ALM);
Altmetric.com;
Plum Analytics and its PlumX tool;
ImpactStory.
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Bibliography
Websites
ORCID http://orcid.org/
Platforms
PLoS
Plos Article-level metrics http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/
...Software tools
Lagotto software http://lagotto.io/
Events
Altmetrics workshop, ACM Web Science Conference http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics15/
Altmetrics Conference http://www.altmetricsconference.com/
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