diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47af399be..e6e3eb646 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ To use goose from the command line:
     mvn compile
     MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx2000m"; mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.gravity.goose.TalkToMeGoose -Dexec.args="http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/native-apps-or-web-apps-particle-code-wants-you-to-do-both/" -e -q > ~/Desktop/gooseresult.txt
 
+##Usage as a maven dependency
+
+Goose is hosted on Sonatype's OSS repository, https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/gravity/goose/
+
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.gravity</groupId>
+      <artifactId>goose</artifactId>
+      <version>2.1.22</version>
+    </dependency>
 
 ##Regarding the port from JAVA to Scala
 
@@ -55,4 +64,4 @@ Here are some of the reasons for the port to Scala:
 
 ##Issues
 It was a pretty fast Java to Scala port so lots of the nicities of the Scala language aren't in the codebase yet, but those will come over the coming months as we re-write alot of the internal methods to be more Scalesque.
-We made sure it was still nice and operable from Java as well so if you're using goose from java you still should be able to use it with a few changes to the method signatures.
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+We made sure it was still nice and operable from Java as well so if you're using goose from java you still should be able to use it with a few changes to the method signatures.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9fef84cba..2dea0d5fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,34 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
+    <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>7</version>
+  </parent>
 
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.gravity</groupId>
   <artifactId>goose</artifactId>
-  <version>2.1.22</version>
+  <version>2.1.23-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>goose</name>
-  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+  <description>Goose was originally an article extractor written in Java that has most recently (aug2011) converted to a scala project. It's mission is to take any news article or article type web page and not only extract what is the main body of the article but also all meta data and most probable image candidate.</description>
+  <url>https://github.com/jiminoc/goose</url>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:jiminoc/goose.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:jiminoc/goose.git</developerConnection>
+    <url>git@github.com:jiminoc/goose.git</url>
+  </scm>
+
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
   </properties>
@@ -89,9 +110,9 @@
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.14.3</version>
+        <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
+        <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.0</version>
         <configuration>
           <charset>UTF-8</charset>
           <jvmArgs>
@@ -136,14 +157,14 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.8</version>
+        <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
+        <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.0</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>attach-javadocs</id>
             <goals>
-              <goal>jar</goal>
+              <goal>doc-jar</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
@@ -151,4 +172,4 @@
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
-</project>
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+</project>