ChemRxiv, a preprint server for the chemical sciences, has announced that the server will be hosted on the Cambridge Open Engage platform, beginning in the second quarter of 2021. Authors posting to ChemRxiv will now benefit from an improved experience. They will continue to be able to submit their preprints directly from ChemRxiv to all partner journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), Chinese Chemical Society, Chemical Society of Japan, German Chemical Society (GDCh), and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
According to Brigitte Shull, director of scholarly communications research and development at Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Open Engage was launched to support researcher collaboration and aid discovery of early and non-traditional research. This new partnership will help ChemRxiv accelerate the movement toward open research and also provide crucial services through Cambridge Open Engage to meet the needs of the global chemistry community.
Under the new host, ChemRxiv authors will have an author dashboard where they can view content upload status, easily upload new versions of their preprints, and respond to user comments. Cambridge Open Engage works directly with an online panel of over 200 volunteer academics to validate new features, prioritize its roadmap and generate ideas. Authors and readers will, therefore, benefit from a system built to fit their needs.
In 2017, ACS and its partners launched ChemRxiv to become the premier preprint server for all of the chemical sciences. Since its inception, ChemRxiv has received over 6,300 preprints that have been viewed and downloaded more than 16 million times. ChemRxiv is one of the many tools and services that show the commitment of all the partnering societies to the advancement of the open science movement.
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