Kudos, the award-winning service for maximising the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that the University of Kent is the latest institution to sign up for its dissemination management services. The University's Office for Scholarly Communication, which works closely with the institution's Research Services and Information Services, selected Kudos to help deliver on its objectives for broadening the reach of Kent's research outputs.
The Office for Scholarly Communication aims to help researchers communicate their research to their desired audience in the most effective way, including discovering new dissemination routes, embedding communication from research idea to publication and ensuring that all researchers are aware of, and supported in, the most appropriate routes for dissemination. Kudos offers valuable insight on how effective a method of communication for a particular article, showing where the most return for effort is, freeing up research time. It also gives the data to analyse trends, to enable to work with researchers to create manageable dissemination plans. Kudos also provides a platform for a lay summary and author perspective to sit alongside the research output - giving context and insight for the non-specialist reader.
By channelling researchers' communications about their work through a central system, and mapping these actions against a range of metrics, Kudos provides institutions with deep, actionable insight into the most effective ways to accelerate research impact. Its reports and tools uniquely enable institutions to understand, amplify and support researchers' efforts to improve the performance of their work. The system currently has over 225,000 users across more than 10,000 institutions, and is growing by approximately 1,500 users per week.
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