Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen, which published its first Open Access articles in April, is now officially launching to coincide with the SSP 36th Annual Meeting (#SSPBOSTON).
This next generation Open Access (OA) platform builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a dialogue to move research forward. It combines over 1 million articles from all areas of modern science, the humanities and social sciences with collaborative pre- publication workspaces, immediate publication and post-publication peer-review.
ScienceOpen provides a holistic authoring environment to facilitate the entire research communication process, putting valuable resources at the fingertips of researchers and liberating more time for experimentation.
The site is committed to Open Science and offers features that are prerequisites and some that raise the bar for other publishers. Articles are published under a common and flexible OA license (CC-BY) and are fully compliant with funder mandates. Preview articles that have passed an internal 5 point editorial check receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) from CrossRef so the work can immediately accrue citations. Open peer review takes place after publication and article level metrics are provided in collaboration with Altmetric. Proofs are automatically provided and versioning is included.
The platform also provides free collaborative workspaces where researchers can develop their manuscripts in a private team without the need for email or any obligation to publish with ScienceOpen. Informal scientific communication takes place in public groups or through social networking tools. Participation in reviewing and commenting, on both ScienceOpen articles and all the Open Access content available on the site, requires free membership. Members are allocated different privileges and roles depending on the previous publication history that appears on their unique ORCID research identity, to maintain the level of scientific discourse.
Additionally, ScienceOpen has announced the appointment of Liz Allen (formerly PLOS and Nature, @LizAllenSO) as Vice President of Marketing.
