Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content through electronic journal collections from over 200 publishers. It currently includes over 278,000 articles, 486,000 chapters, and is subscribed to by over 2,600 libraries in 80 countries. The document discusses Project MUSE's efforts to define, measure, and evaluate altmetrics for the articles in its collections, including top referrers from search engines and social media, as well as the most bookmarked or downloaded articles. It notes that HighWire will begin supporting altmetric.com metrics.

2. Project MUSE: Altmetrics
Wendy Queen, Associate Director
Project MUSE, JHUP

3. Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and
social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections
have supported a wide array of research needs at
academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE
books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly
societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.
MUSE currently includes:
• 278,946 articles
• 486,012 chapters
• 203 publishers
• 2,600 library subscribers in 80 countries

4. Altmetrics: MUSE’s Pursuit to
Define, Measure and Evaluate
• Referrers
• Social Bookmarking
• Expansion

5. Top Referrers
Google
Scholar Google
Google UK
Exlibris
Scholar Google UK
Wikipedia
Scholars Portal
Ebsco Host
Facebook

6. AddThis / Social Bookmarks

7. Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7
Article 8
Article 9
Article 10
Downloads / Social Bookmarks

8. JUST IN: HighWire will be supporting altmetric.com

9. Thank you!
wjq@press.jhu.edu