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

6Search functionality

7Article page: Share, comment, review

8Altmetrics

9ScienceOpen Collections

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.

11Publisher branding on ScienceOpen

12New journal promotion: Thieme

13Best of OA promotion: IUCr

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: +49-30-6098490-277Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com

16Looking forward to your visit!

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