ScienceOpen
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
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| Website | scienceopen |
ScienceOpen is a privately owned discovery and research network with three roles: aggregation, open access publishing and the evaluation of scholarly literature in all scholarly disciplines.
ScienceOpen began in 2013 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. As of September 2015 the site has 10 million articles and records 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, which in February 2016 was dubbed the Open Citation Index. 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, and all articles can be publicly commented on by members with one or more items.
ScienceOpen appoints members of the research community as Collection Editors 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.”
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