Academic publisher Cambridge University Press will expand its provision of open research services with the launch of its own early and open content platform Cambridge Open Engage.
Built in-house, Cambridge Open Engage will use the state-of-the-art technology behind Cambridge Core, the online home for the Press’s books and journals, to publish early and open research outputs including preprint papers, abstracts, conference proceedings, conference posters, grey literature, and open data. The content will be open and free to the reader, as well as free to the author to upload.
The platform will go beyond content dissemination to provide services that support and encourage researcher collaboration and better connect different parts of the research lifecycle. Hosting content from partners such as learned societies, research departments, and funders, as well as directly from researchers, its features and functionality will support an integrated, community-driven service.
Partners will be able to access a range of services, including content hosting, insights into trends and growth areas within research, and analytics across early and open research outputs within their organisation.
At the same time, authors will be able to easily share their research in advance of peer review and production, discuss and develop it with peers and build an audience ahead of formal publication. The platform will also benefit researchers by helping them to find and work with academics across disciplines, discover early and non-traditional Open Access research, and extend the cooperative benefits of conferences through to publication.
The platform will be developed iteratively, starting this autumn, and Cambridge is inviting researchers to take part in shaping the development of the site to ensure that the platform is as useful to researchers as possible.
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