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Emerald signs up to Kudos/ Research Media pilot
Emerald Group Publishing has become the first scholarly publisher to sign up to a pilot service from Kudos and Research Media that will help the research community extend the visibility and impact of published articles.
The service will see Kudos’s publisher partners – such as Emerald – sponsor the creation by Research Media of compelling professional lay summaries and infographics for a select number of online scholarly articles, in order to drive engagement and subsequent download and usage levels. Emerald recently extended its partnership with Kudos, an online platform that helps increase the impact of published articles, to roll out the value-add service for Emerald authors. Results of Emerald’s initial trial of the Kudos service were very encouraging, the companies say, with Emerald authors showing the highest level of activity of any
participating publisher, while Kudos found authors using its sharing tools during the trial saw a 19 per cent increase in their impact. These results serve to highlight the interest of Emerald authors in broadening the reach and impact of their research.
Research Media is a research communications agency that provides integrated creative services solely for the research sector. It assists researchers and institutions with their impact and outreach strategies, translating highly complex research outputs into simple and effective summaries across a range of media. Vicky Williams, CEO of Research Media, said: ‘We’re delighted that a global publisher of Emerald’s stature has been so quick off the mark in getting on board with this leading- edge pilot. It’s a natural home for Research Media’s lay summaries and infographics, which are similarly aimed at broadening the reach of
research, and engaging audiences that span research, policy and practice.’ Tony Roche, publishing director at Emerald, said: ‘Emerald authors that have used Kudos have seen great value in its sharing tools as a means of disseminating their research more widely. This new pilot is an innovative value-add service, providing authors with really engaging digital assets that will help increase usage and impact of their work.’
Melinda Kenneway, Kudos executive director and co-founder, added: ‘We’re excited to partner with Emerald on this pilot. While many researchers have the resources and language skills to help explain their work and grow readership, many don’t.
‘This new service from Kudos will mean that researchers can choose to have additional support to help their publications get found, read and cited.’
Berghahn relaunches journals on PubFactory
Berghahn Books is to relaunch its journals portfolio on PubFactory, the scholarly publishing platform from Safari.
Berghahn Books’ choice of PubFactory to host their new journals publishing platform will feature a complete site redesign to maximise the Berghahn Books brand, enhance user engagement, and provide a ‘mobile optimised content interface’. Berghahn Books is an independent publisher of distinguished scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. Vivian Berghahn, managing director, said: ‘We
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have selected Safari’s PubFactory platform, knowing that we needed a trusted partner to provide the highest level of platform performance, as well as to deliver strategic support beyond the normal scope of services offered by platform vendors. ‘We are thrilled to begin working with Safari and to gain the many benefits of joining our business with an innovative, collaborative partner who will propel the growth of our flourishing journals program and advance the services that we provide.’
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platform partner to enable Berghahn Books to drive the development of its online journals, and be equipped to adapt its business based on evolving user needs and the latest technology tools.
José Fossi, vice president of operations, said: ‘Safari is proud to have Berghahn Books journals join the growing list of journals publishers hosted on PubFactory. Over the last decade, PubFactory has developed into a feature-rich, flexible platform that readily supports journals, books, databases, and other publisher-defined content types.’
ProQuest and BMJ announce medical journal agreement
ProQuest and BMJ have announced a multi-year agreement that will enable BMJ’s complete collection of medical journals to be added to ProQuest collections.
BMJ publishes in 11 languages and has a global audience of health professionals, students, patients, academic institutions, and governments. Its expertise includes cutting-edge research, medical education, decision support and quality improvement to help medical organisations and clinicians tackle today’s most critical healthcare challenges. BMJ publishing director Peter Ashman said: ‘We are delighted to be partnering with ProQuest to make the content of our world-leading collection of specialist journals available to new audiences. We see this partnership as an endorsement of BMJ’s credentials as an important global knowledge provider, and our commitment to ensuring that healthcare professionals have the knowledge to improve patient outcomes.’
From April, more than 60 BMJ journals will be made available for researchers as part of ProQuest’s health and medical research collections. The list includes the flagship
journal The BMJ, and specialist journals from medical societies. ProQuest will make BMJ content accessible alongside other premier scholarly journals as well as dissertations, clinical training videos, medical reference books, and reports in ProQuest medical and nursing databases, enhancing the research experience.
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