More mileage for Open Access content on the digital superhighway:
How publishers can demonstrate added value
Scientific Publishing Innovation Day: Opportunities for future growth London, 13 April 2015
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2 Your customers have paid for OA…
Nearly every STM publisher both offers individual Open Access options for subscription journals and new “gold” Open Access journals.
Open Access is changing customer’s expectations. Widest distribution
More downloads, more sharing
Article-level metrics
Citation advantage
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3Example: Citations to non-elite journals
Acharya et al., arXiv:1410.2217 9 Oct. 2014
4What is ScienceOpen?
ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access communication platform.
1.5 million aggregated Open Access articles open to Post-Pub Peer Review and Collection building.
Suite of social-networking and collaboration tools. ScienceOpen as publisher offers immediate publication
after editorial check with a transparent, network-based peer-review afterward.
5Content aggregation on ScienceOpen
Advanced search functionalities Saved searches with notification when new
content is added Search for similar content on ScienceOpen Altmetric information on every paper Commenting and Post-Publication Peer Review
(with trackable CrossRef DOI for reports) on all content
10Future of scholarly communication
What aspects of scholarly journals are most important to users?
Topic-specific bundling Editorial selection Quality assurance Trust and reliability
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond individual publishers or journals.
14In summary…
More visibility with aggregation of Open Access content on ScienceOpen
Publisher and journal promotion services
Inclusion of content in ScienceOpen Collections
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15Thank you!
Stephanie Dawson, PhD
ScienceOpen GmbHPappelallee 78/7910437 Berlin, Germany
Skype: dawson_scienceopenTwitter: @SDawsonBerlinMobile: +49-176-72614581Tel: [email protected]