ScienceOpen
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ScienceOpen is a privately owned research network with three roles: aggregation, open access publishing and the evaluation of scholarly literature in all disciplines.
History
ScienceOpen began in 2013[1] when Alexander Grossmann, a professor of Publishing Management at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and former publishing director at scientific house De Gruyter, and Tibor Tscheke, president and CEO of content management systems company Ovitas, decided to start a platform. Their idea was to allow researchers to share scientific information, both formally by publishing articles and participating in post-publication peer review, and informally by reviewing their colleagues’ work, providing endorsements and comments, and by updating their own papers.
Its beta version was introduced in November 2013, and release 1.0 launched in May 2014.[2] As of September 2015 the site has 10 million articles and records[3] from PubMed Central, ArXiv, PubMed and ScienceOpen, and a publicly available citation index which is free for researchers to use wherever they are and is provided at no cost to libraries. All content on the platform is available for post-publication peer review by scientific members with five or more peer-reviewed publications on their ORCID.
ScienceOpen appoints members of the research community as Collection Editors[4] who curate articles from multiple publishers in any topic. Thieme, a German medical publisher, mirrors three open access journals on the platform.
The organization is based in Berlin and has a technical office in Boston. It is a member of CrossRef, ORCID, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the Directory of Open Access Journals. The company was designated as one of “10 to Watch” by research advisory firm Outsell in its report “Open Access 2015: Market Size, Share, Forecast, and Trends.”
In 2015, Tscheke provided further clarification of ScienceOpen’s focus on aggregation and filtering content.[5]
Business model
To fund article publication, ScienceOpen charges a publication fee ($800 as of this time of writing, in 2015) to be paid by the author or the author’s employer, funder or library. Included in this fee are up to two article revisions within 12 months. A partial or full fee waiver is available to those who demonstrate need. Poster session publishing is free.
Publications
- ScienceOpen Research, ISSN 2199-1006
- ScienceOpen Posters, ISSN 2199-8442
Headquarters
ScienceOpen has its headquarters located at Pappelallee 78-79, Berlin and its technical hub is at 60 Mall Rd., Burlington, Mass.
See also
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
References
- ↑ "OA interviews: Alexander Grossmann, ScienceOpen - Open-access publishing - Research Information". www.researchinformation.info. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ↑ "ScienceOpen: the next wave of Open Access? - EuroScientist Webzine". EuroScientist Webzine. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ↑ Poynder, Richard (2015-11-16). "Open and Shut?: The OA Interviews: ScienceOpen’s Alexander Grossmann". Open and Shut?. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ↑ "ScienceOpen Collections". About ScienceOpen. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ↑ "There’s more to Open Access than APCs, right? – ScienceOpen Blog". blog.scienceopen.com. Retrieved 2015-11-19.