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ResearchGate and American Meteorological Society announce new Journal Home partnership covering complete journals portfolio

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service, have today announced a new Journal Home partnership covering the complete AMS journal portfolio.

The agreement includes all 12 AMS journals, including three fully open access journals in addition to all hybrid and subscription titles. AMS aims to further encourage high-quality submissions and drive readership of AMS journals through ResearchGate’s state-of-the-art Journal Home offering. With Journal Home’s integrated features, the AMS community will now benefit from:

  • Seamless syndication of all version-of-record content to the ResearchGate platform, including subscription access for entitled users, enhancing the visibility of AMS journals and usage of its content through ResearchGate’s highly engaged community of 25m+ researcher members.
  • Amplified brand awareness with dedicated journal profiles displaying key information, plus prominent branding on all associated article pages and other relevant touchpoints with researchers – driving global readership and authorship.
  • Intuitive data that provides AMS with an advanced understanding of their journals’ communities and their demographics, impact and connections.
  • Automated updates to journal article authors profiles on ResearchGate – enabling them to better track usage, connect with their readers, and understand the wider impact of their work.

“With our mission to advance the atmospheric and related sciences, the unparalleled discoverability and ease of access that Journal Home provides is vitally important, facilitating a seamless publishing and reading experience for researchers in our space,” said Brian Papa, Acting Executive Director, American Meteorological Society. “Onboarding all AMS journals from the start of our partnership ensures we can take full advantage of these benefits as soon as possible to expedite knowledge exchange and drive high quality publications across the portfolio.”

“AMS and ResearchGate are committed to supporting the scientific community by enhancing access to research worldwide. This partnership will elevate visibility and promote deeper engagement with AMS’ essential climate research, reaching new readers and enhancing AMS’s understanding of their community. This will be especially important in driving uptake of their growing open access journals,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate.

For more information about Journal Home, please visit www.researchgate.net/journal-home

For more information about ResearchGate, please visit www.researchgate.net

For more information about AMS Journals, please visit https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/  

Integra Launches Dedicated Microsite for AuthorPilot, Its AI-Powered Manuscript Screening Solution

Integra, a global leader in content and technology solutions with over 30 years of operational excellence, has unveiled a dedicated microsite for AuthorPilot, offering journal publishers deeper insights into the platform’s capabilities.

Developed and refined over several years, AuthorPilot is an AI-driven manuscript screening solution designed to help editorial teams manage increasing submission volumes while maintaining rigorous quality and research integrity standards. Built on Integra’s extensive experience in enhancing publishing workflows through automation, AuthorPilot seamlessly integrates into editorial processes, providing tailored checks at various pre-production stages to meet journal-specific requirements.

Empowering Publishers to Scale Without Compromising Quality

As submission volumes rise and peer review delays become more prevalent, maintaining editorial efficiency without sacrificing quality is a critical challenge. AuthorPilot addresses this by enabling publishers to screen and language-polish manuscripts before peer review, allowing reviewers to focus solely on scientific merit rather than language and formatting issues.

With three decades of expertise serving scholarly, educational, trade, and professional publishers, Integra continues to drive innovation in publishing workflows through automation, cutting-edge products, and specialized human expertise.

“At Integra, we collaborate closely with our customers to understand their evolving needs,” said Sriram Subramanya, Founder, CEO, and MD at Integra. “With AuthorPilot, we provide the scholarly publishing community with the tools to manage scale effectively while upholding the high-quality standards that define our industry.”

Key Features of AuthorPilot:

AuthorPilot offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance editorial workflows and improve efficiency. The platform includes over 40 customizable checks that cover language quality, technical parameters, and research integrity, ensuring that each manuscript meets the required standards before advancing to the next stage.

To accommodate high submission volumes, AuthorPilot supports batch processing, enabling the efficient handling of multiple manuscripts at once. Its fast and intuitive interface ensures high accuracy while remaining user-friendly for editorial teams.

One of the platform’s standout features is its automated, non-intrusive language editing, which refines manuscripts while preserving the author’s original voice. Additionally, seamless workflow integration allows editorial teams to incorporate AuthorPilot at various stages, including pre-submission, pre-peer review, and pre-production.

AuthorPilot is designed for effortless integration with manuscript management systems, making adoption smooth for publishers. Moreover, it stands out as a cost-effective solution, offering the most competitive pricing in the market while delivering exceptional value.

“AuthorPilot is more than just an AI tool—it’s a solution shaped by years of collaboration with publishers to streamline editorial workflows while safeguarding research integrity,” said Ashutosh Ghildiyal, VP of Growth and Strategy at Integra. “AI’s true value lies in empowering human experts, enabling them to focus on what truly matters: ensuring the excellence of published research.”

The newly launched AuthorPilot microsite provides comprehensive details on its features, use cases, and integration capabilities, helping publishers and editorial teams optimize their workflows. Explore the platform at https://authorpilot.integranxt.com.

Cactus Communications partners with EDP Sciences to enhance research integrity using Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk

Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a leading science communication and technology company, announces partnership with EDP Sciences, an international academic publisher founded in 1920. This collaboration will implement CACTUS’ cutting-edge technology Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk (PPE) into EDP Sciences’ editorial workflow, to strengthen the integrity of research by ensuring rigorous checks for all incoming conference proceedings.

With the growing volume of research submissions, maintaining high standards of integrity is more critical than ever. PPE will conduct AI-powered checks for potential research integrity concerns, along with language quality and technical compliance checks to enhance the quality and reliability of research. In addition to the AI-led screening, human experts will audit findings and provide insights on trends and patterns, ensuring a comprehensive evaluation process.

Nikesh Gosalia, President, Global Academic and Publisher Relations, Cactus Communications, said, “With the proliferation of papermill activity and increase in retractions, ensuring the integrity of research is paramount. Our Paperpal Preflight technology equips publishers with advanced AI-driven solutions to enhance editorial workflows while upholding the highest standards of scholarly publishing. The partnership with EDP Sciences marks a pivotal step in this direction, leveraging the robust screening capabilities of Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk along with PhD level proficiency to support rigorous quality control of conference proceedings published in Web of Conferences.”

Solange Guéhot, Editor for Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, commented, “At EDP Sciences, we are committed to advancing research by ensuring that all published work meets top-notch quality and integrity. The integration of CACTUS’ AI-powered Paperpal Preflight tool into our editorial process will allow us to efficiently screen WOC conference proceedings for potential integrity issues, thereby safeguarding the credibility of scholarly publishing.” 

This collaboration is in-line with the ongoing efforts to enhance integrity of research within scholarly publishing. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, CACTUS and EDP Sciences aim to build a new standard for quality assurance.

For more information, please visit:

Cactus Communications: https://cactusglobal.com/

EDP Sciences: https://www.edpsciences.org/en

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), a CJK Group Company, Acquires Origin Editorial

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), the leading provider of transformative content solutions and part of CJK Group, Inc., has recently acquired peer review and associated scholarly publishing services provider, Origin Editorial. 

Based in Arvada, CO, and employing a wide network of experienced editorial professionals, Origin offers a full complement of peer review management, copyediting/proofreading, and production services, as well as consultancies, for a wide range of journal and other publishing needs. The company facilitates the entire journal publishing process, from editorial assistant to publication director services. In addition to peer review management, consulting, and production services, Origin also offers reporting and analytics and workflow and technology optimization.

KGL will retain Origin’s management and team of associates and integrate them with its existing peer review and editorial group. With decades of experience supporting over 500 journals, KGL Editorial’s 200+ managing editors, credentialed subject editors, and editorial associates based in the US, Europe, and India provide comprehensive editorial office, peer review and production management, research integrity, developmental editing, and specialized services to publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers.

“The acquisition of Origin Editorial represents a strategic alignment of our commitment to providing comprehensive, high-quality peer review solutions,” said Atul Goel, President of KGL. “Integrating Origin’s considerable editorial experience and shared excellence with KGL’s global scale and technologies will enable us to deliver even greater value to our combined clients and partners in the academic community. We are thrilled to welcome Origin’s talented team to the KGL family as we continue to advance the future of journal publishing.”

“Joining KGL is an exciting next chapter for Origin Editorial,” said Kristen Overstreet, Senior Partner at Origin. “For years, we have built our reputation on efficiency, proactive management, and a personal touch that ensures our clients feel supported at every stage of the publishing process.” Jason Roberts, PhD, Senior Partner at Origin, added, “Uniting with KGL allows us to extend that same level of service to a broader audience while making the most of KGL’s innovative peer review technology and global infrastructure. Together, we are poised to redefine excellence in scholarly communications.”

Emerald Publishing launches responsible publishing report

Emerald’s 2024 Responsible Publishing Report provides an in-depth look at our initiatives and achievements in operating as a responsible publisher, supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and fostering a fairer, more inclusive research environment.

Some of the key milestones included in the report are:

  • Recognised as Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality and one of the Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces in the UK and Ireland.
  • Raised more than £25,000 for BookTrust, a UK charity dedicated to getting children reading.
  • Released 95% of our books’ frontlist titles straight to print on demand in both the US and the UK.
  • Switched to 100% renewable energy at our headquarters in Leeds, UK.

The report details Emerald’s distinctive approach to responsible publishing and the “Emerald Goals” initiative, which tackles real-world societal challenges through interdisciplinary solutions. 

This SDGs-based strategy enhances our dedication to promoting impactful research and aligns with our role as a founding signatory of the UN SDG Publisher Compact. This strategy communicates our purpose-driven brand and supports the education, publication, and impact of research aligned with the SDGs.

Through our Real Impact manifesto, we collaborate with partners to redefine “research impact,” challenging outdated metrics. We acknowledge the barriers that exist and strive to foster a more equitable environment where research can thrive. Our focus includes advocating for innovative dissemination formats, robust support systems, and greater recognition of impactful work.

The report also highlights our commitments to making a positive impact on our people, our communities, and the world.  We call these commitments our 3Ps – Planet, People, and Prosperity – and have established teams comprising colleagues from around the business to focus on each of these areas. These initiatives are the building blocks of our plan to empower individuals from all walks of life. While we acknowledge there’s still much to achieve, this report highlights the progress we’re making toward our goals.

Vicky Williams, CEO, Emerald Publishing said: “Since we were founded in 1967, Emerald’s belief has always been that the research we publish on behalf of our authors should have application outside of academia and should make an impact in the real world.

“As a global publishing business, we publish over 400 journals, more than 4,180 books, and over 3,100 business cases. Through this output and working closely with our editorial communities, our mission is to see this research reach relevant audiences and make an impact on society. We recognise that this impact takes time to come to fruition, and we work in an industry where impact is often measured in numbers, but we’re nevertheless committed to taking a more progressive stance on how research should be valued.

“At Emerald, we work hard to ensure that our organisational actions reflect the ambitions we have for the research our authors publish with us. This report highlights the results of that work which we will continue to undertake to ensure that we make a real difference.”

Read the report in full

Elsevier and Washington State University Partner to Expand Open Access Publishing

Washington State University and Elsevier Collaborate on Read and Publish Agreement to Boost Open Access and Research Visibility

Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and analytics, and Washington State University (WSU) are pleased to announce a new Read and Publish (R&P) agreement for 2025. The five-year agreement marks a pioneering step in the Northwest American region, enabling WSU researchers to publish their work open access in Elsevier’s journals and ensuring their research is accessible to a global audience. 

This partnership supports WSU’s commitment to advancing knowledge and providing its researchers with seamless access to high-quality scholarly content. It reflects a shared dedication to fostering open scholarship, enhancing the visibility and impact of research, and promoting innovation across the academic community. 

Joel Cummings, Head of Collection Development, at Washington State University Libraries, said: “This agreement marks an exciting step forward, enabling more of Washington State University’s research to be published open access and increasing its global accessibility. WSU researchers, who contribute significantly to Elsevier journals via ScienceDirect, will continue to play an active role in advancing academic knowledge.” 

James Tonna, VP Research Sales, Americas at Elsevier, added: “We are delighted to collaborate with Washington State University in enabling their researchers to share their work openly on a global scale. This agreement underscores our commitment to equipping institutions and researchers with the tools and access they need to inspire global collaboration and drive innovation.” 

OpenAIRE & The Lens Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Open Knowledge Integration

OpenAIRE, a European leader in Open Science infrastructure, and The Lens, a pioneering global open knowledge platform operated by Cambia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration and enhance the discoverability and accessibility of scholarly and innovation-driven research.

The partnership aims to leverage the unique strengths of both organizations by integrating OpenAIRE’s extensive Open Science infrastructure with The Lens’ comprehensive scholarly and patent datasets. By enhancing metadata interoperability and enriching research links, this collaboration will support researchers, institutions, and policymakers in navigating the ever-evolving Open Science ecosystem.

Both OpenAIRE and The Lens are committed to democratizing access to research knowledge and fostering innovation. The OpenAIRE Graph—one of the largest open scholarly record databases – serves as a cornerstone for Open Science in Europe, while The Lens’ globally recognized platform connects scholarly works with patents, helping bridge research with innovation. 

Through this MoU, the two organizations will work together to:

  • Improve Metadata Accuracy and Integration – Strengthening the quality and interoperability of research output data.
  • Facilitate Seamless Data Exchange – Enabling interconnectivity between OpenAIRE’s Research Graph and The Lens’ knowledge infrastructure.
  • Expand Research Impact – Enhancing visibility and accessibility of research findings linked to innovation and patent records.

To achieve these objectives, OpenAIRE and The Lens will focus on the following key initiatives:

  1. Metadata Enrichment & API Interoperability – Aligning datasets through the integration of The Lens’ scholarly and patent APIs with OpenAIRE’s Research Graph.
  2. Text-Mining and Patent Linkages – Conducting experiments to extract and map patent references within OpenAIRE’s scholarly content, strengthening connections between academic research and intellectual property.
  3. Advancing Open Innovaton – Providing policymakers, institutions, and researchers with comprehensive datasets that bridge scholarly knowledge with innovation pathways.

“This collaboration with The Lens represents a crucial step in OpenAIRE’s mission to create a truly interconnected Open Science landscape. By linking research with innovation, we enhance transparency, accessibility, and the societal impact of scientific discoveries.”  Paolo Manghi, CTO OpenAIRE
“Our partnership with OpenAIRE underscores our joint commitment to making knowledge more accessible to, and actionable by more and different people and institutions.  By integrating scholarly and patent data in a human-focused experience, we provide a platform to form more effective partnerships and pathways to solving society’s great problems.”  Richard Jefferson, CEO, Cambia (The Lens)

OpenAIRE and The Lens will begin by conducting a pilot phase to refine data integration methodologies and assess interoperability. Insights gained from this phase will help shape a long-term roadmap for expanding data exchange and open knowledge accessibility.

This MoU signifies a pivotal advancement in global Open Science efforts, reinforcing the dedication of OpenAIRE and The Lens to making research and innovation more interconnected and accessible, and critically, more effective at contributing to real solutions to the urgent problems of our time.

About The Lens 

https://www.lens.org

The Lens is a world leader in providing free and open exploration, discovery and analysis of worldwide innovation knowledge, including patents and research knowledge, serving 280M+ scholarly work records, 160M+ patent documents from over 100 countries, and 500M+ biological sequences extracted from patents. The Lens has been operating for twenty-five years as a project of the long-established non-profit social enterprise Cambia (which pioneered Open Science Practice and Biological Open Source in the 1980’s and 90’s), initially with support from leading global philanthropies, now supported by its users.

For more information, please contact info@lens.org.

ResearchGate and the Canadian Center of Science and Education announce new Journal Home partnership to support 23 fully open access journals

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and the Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE), an organisation delivering support and services to educators and researchers in Canada and around the world, have today announced a new Journal Home partnership that will grow the international readership and author community for CCSE’s journals.

23 of CCSE’s fully open access (OA) journals are included in the partnership, which brings seamless integration of all version-of-record into the ResearchGate platform, offering increased discoverability and profile to these journals and their content. Participating CCSE titles will now benefit from:

  • Instant discoverability of CCSE articles for ResearchGate’s 25+ million researcher members – increasing usage and citation of their content
  • Growing submissions and publication from relevant researchers from around the world
  • Increased visibility via journal profiles, providing unified access to key information and content, plus prominent branding on all associated article pages.
  • Improved author support, including automated updates to member profiles and reader insights that support more meaningful engagement and collaboration with other researchers.

“CCSE advocates for the welfare and progress of future generations. Our Journal Home partnership ensures CCSE journals and content are more discoverable and accessible – helping to accelerate scientific knowledge exchange and advancing CCSE’s reputation with new readers and authors worldwide,” said Wenwu Zhao, President, the Canadian Center of Science and Education.

“CCSE’s drive to increase access to research for both the global scientific community and the public aligns strongly with ResearchGate’s vision,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “With Journal Home enhancing their journals’ discoverability and access, CCSE has the ability to grow, understand, and engage with their communities – strengthening the reach, readership and impact for their titles.”

For more information about Journal Home, please visit www.researchgate.net/journal-home

For more information about ResearchGate, please visit www.researchgate.net

For more information about CCSE, please visit https://ccsenet.org/

Reimagining FAIR for an AI World: Frontiers introduces FAIR² Data Management 

On Open Data Day 2025, Frontiers is launching the FAIR² (FAIR Squared™) Data Management Pilot, a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed service that helps researchers get credited and cited for their work while making data AI-ready, reusable, and impactful. FAIR² Data Management leverages AI-assisted curation to structure research data for publication, making it easier to find, reuse, and analyze—both by humans and machines—so researchers can focus on discovery rather than data preparation. By making datasets shareable and optimized for reuse, FAIR² Data Management enhances research efficiency and reproducibility, accelerating breakthroughs in global health, planetary sustainability, and scientific innovation.

Billions of dollars in research value are lost annually because most scientific data remain on the shelf—difficult to find, access, and reuse. Fragmented formats, missing details, and technical barriers slow both human and AI-driven analysis. Researchers waste valuable time cleaning data instead of making discoveries and rarely receive credit for the data they generate. Meanwhile, funders are increasingly demanding that researchers publish their data, but they lack the tools to comply and remain unrewarded. Without scalable solutions, vast pools of knowledge remain locked away, stalling scientific progress. 

“For too long, researchers have lacked the tools and incentives to share their data, leaving untold amounts of valuable research lost— data that could drive breakthroughs, accelerate innovation, and improve research quality worldwide. Our AI-powered data steward makes data curation easier and more rewarding, helping publishers like Frontiers provide researchers with a powerful way to share their data, gain recognition, and ensure it remains accessible, reusable, and ready to fuel future discoveries.” said Dr. Sean Hill, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Senscience, the Frontiers AI venture powering FAIR² Data Management. 

FAIR² Data Management goes beyond the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) by providing an AI-powered solution that transforms research data into a structured, machine-actionable resource. Powered by Senscience, it leverages an AI Data Steward to automate data organization, improve usability, and assist with governance. Researchers benefit from an AI-assisted workflow that streamlines data preparation and sharing, turning their datasets into a FAIR² Data Package, an interactive exploration portal, and a peer-reviewed FAIR² Data Article in a Frontiers journal—maximizing visibility, recognition, and citations. 

Dr. Kamila Markram, Co-Founder and CEO of Frontiers, emphasized: 

“The global challenges we face demand better science—powered by better data. It’s not enough for data to be open; it must be well-organized, reusable, and impactful. FAIR² Data Management transforms data into a tool for discovery, tackling pressing challenges in global health, sustainability, and beyond.”

What is FAIR²? Advancing FAIR for the AI Era

For years, the FAIR principles have provided a foundation for research data sharing. However, as machine learning and AI become an increasingly important tool in scientific research, data must be structured for both humans and machines. 

FAIR² (FAIR Squared) extends the FAIR principles by defining a formal specification that makes research data AI-ready, aligned with Responsible AI principles, and structured for deep scientific reuse. Compatible with MLCommons Croissant’s AI-ready format, it integrates essential elements for scientific rigor, reproducibility, and interoperability. FAIR² ensures data is richly documented and linked to provenance, methodology, and a detailed data dictionary, creating a context-rich representation of each dataset. It also integrates with TensorFlow, JAX, and PyTorch, enabling AI-driven analysis and easy sharing on Kaggle and Hugging Face, amplifying its impact across disciplines. 

ProfessorBarend Mons, senior author of the FAIR principles paper and founding director of the Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES), emphasized the need for structured, well-governed data: 

“Open science must move beyond principles to implementation, structure, and governance. FAIR² provides the framework for AI-ready, context-rich, and responsibly governed data, ensuring informed reuse. FAIR² Data Management puts this into practice, helping researchers create a scalable ecosystem of Fully AI Ready, machine-actionable data.”

AI-Assisted Data Curation in Action

The power of FAIR² Data Management is already being demonstrated in practice. The first peer-reviewed FAIR² Data Article and FAIR² Data Portal, published today, showcase AI-driven data curation in action. Led by Dr. Ángel Borja of AZTI Foundation (Spain), this dataset—spanning nearly three decades of marine biodiversity monitoring in the Basque Country, managed by the Basque Water Agency (URA)—has been curated using FAIR², transforming long-term environmental data into an AI-ready resource. 

Dr. Ángel Borja highlighted the impact of AI-driven data stewardship:  

“AI-assisted curation is a game changer. AI-assisted metadata creation makes ocean sustainability research more accessible, providing scientists, managers, and decision-makers with faster, more accurate insights.”

The FAIR² Data Portal takes this further, offering AI chat, interactive data exploration, an AI-generated podcast, and integration with Python and Jupyter Notebooks, allowing researchers to interact with and analyze their data in completely new ways. 

Join the FAIR² Data Management Pilot

Frontiers invites researchers to join the limited-time FAIR² Data Management pilot—an opportunity to showcase datasets and access AI-assisted data stewardship at no cost, with a full waiver covering all service fees. 

  • Convert research data into a FAIR² Data Package, Interactive Data Portal, and peer-reviewed FAIR² Data Article. 
  • Enhance visibility with AI-ready, citable datasets optimized for machine learning and traditional analysis. 
  • Streamline data curation with AI-assisted FAIR² workflows. 

Spots are limited—apply now!

eLife win OpenAthens UX Award 2025

eLife announced as this year’s OpenAthens UX Award winners for its user-driven approach to Reviewed Preprints 

OpenAthens is delighted to announce eLife as the winner of its UX Award 2025 for its user-driven approach to the design of Reviewed Preprints under the eLife Model. Award organizer, Jane Charlton, declared eLife the winner today at OpenAthens’ annual online Access Lab event. 

The UX Award recognizes publishers and library systems vendors that have developed the best user experience and journey to their content and services. Now in its sixth year, the award aims to inspire vendors to invest resources into good UX design and make access to knowledge as easy as possible for end users.  

This year’s panel judges chose eLife as this year’s winner because they scored highly across all steps in the award process and clearly evidenced improvements to user experience. Judges were impressed with the publisher’s user research which guided the design process throughout. eLife strongly demonstrated continual iteration and improvement, and clearly focused on real outcomes and impact on users.  

Two other finalists, Cambridge University Press and Frontiers Media SA were worthy contenders for this year’s award and made significant improvements to the user journey. 

eLife was recognized for the user-driven design work that the team applied to its unique model for publishing. Launched in 2023, the eLife model ends the accept/reject decision after peer review and focuses instead on the public review and assessment of preprints. The outputs of the model are Reviewed Preprints that combine the advantages of preprints with the scrutiny offered by peer review. 

The eLife team’s usability testing of the first Reviewed Preprints showed that many readers still assumed they were revised and “accepted” before publication, and it wasn’t easy to tell the difference between versions. The team carried out user surveys and prototype testing that helped them to improve the communication of the status and version of article pages. They also helped make the public reviews and eLife Assessments easier to find, and information about the model easier to understand. It is this work, and the clearly presented evidence of it, that has been recognized by the UX Award. 

Lead UX designer at eLife, Chris Huggins, expressed his excitement at winning the award: 

“We’re delighted to be named this year’s winner of the OpenAthens UX Award. eLife has always taken a user-driven approach to the design of our website and publication process. This is especially the case for the eLife Model where we’re doing something very different to other publishers.  

Our team has put in a significant amount of work to ensure the process is as clear and intuitive as possible for all our stakeholders, including authors, readers and other users of the Reviewed Preprints we publish. It’s a real honor to have our efforts recognized in this way.”  

Damian Pattinson, eLife Executive Director, says:  

“From the start, eLife has invested in integrating good UX design into everything we do as part of our mission to improve how research is reviewed and communicated. As the eLife Model provides a completely new approach to the traditional system, it’s even more crucial to ensure our process is as simple and seamless as possible for all users to navigate.  

Chris and the team have done a fantastic job in making this happen with the help of their user-driven research both during and after the launch of the model. The UX Award is a testament to the work and dedication that has gone into this so far, and I’d like to congratulate the team for this achievement.”  

UX award organizer, Jane Charlton, explains the importance of the award for the industry: 
 

“More publishers and other library vendors are investing effort into designing optimal user experiences because it can lead to increased usage, customer satisfaction and retention. Our UX Award winners are industry leaders in user-centered design, inspiring others to make improvements in this area. eLife clearly demonstrated they are taking user experience to the next level in their innovative approach to public review and assessment of preprints. We congratulate them on their achievement!” 

Silverchair partners with Signals for Research Integrity Solutions

Through this partnership, Silverchair is integrating Signals Manuscript Checks, using webhook notifications and an API to retrieve metadata from submissions. Signals traffic light evaluations are displayed directly in ScholarOne workflows via custom flags.

With the added nuance of the evaluation flag, the administrator or editor will be able to access the full Research Signals report directly from ScholarOne, ensuring a streamlined addition to the research integrity workflow. Notifications can be signaled from each stage of the publishing workflow, so publishers and editorial teams can customize which integrity checks run at different stages of the review process.

The content of the Signals reports provide a comprehensive and transparent research integrity analysis, as it includes both an overall evaluation for quick prioritization and actionable insights from individual signals. It is delivered by the Signals Data Graph, which combines integrity intelligence from publication metadata with expert knowledge from the scholarly community.

As Josh Dahl, SVP of Product + General Manager, ScholarOne, describes: “Research Integrity is a rapidly changing issue for the research ecosystem. To ensure that we’re supporting strong research integrity in the ScholarOne workflows, we need to prioritize integration and collaboration. Our partnership with Signals allows us to bring these valuable checks to our customers quickly.”

Workflow integrations like this have great value to all participants. Tiago Barros, co-founder of Signals adds: “At Signals we strongly believe that delivering transparent, actionable research integrity evaluation of manuscripts, when and where publishers need them, is a crucial step towards restoring trust in research. We are thrilled to work closely with the ScholarOne team and our Publisher partners to prevent the publication of problematic articles and uphold the integrity of the scholarly record”.

This partnership is the first of several research integrity integrations planned for the first half of 2025. As we progress further, Silverchair and Signals will explore additional API integrations, exposing additional details of the Signals evaluation within ScholarOne, providing a more powerful user experience.

Silverchair’s research integrity focus is agile, iterative, and strategic. The goal is to relieve the burden on editors and peer reviewers by creating spaces for technology flags that evaluate risk or problems with incoming manuscripts, through integrations like this pilot with Signals, and with improved workflows in the ScholarOne infrastructure.

Royal Society Publishing selects the Silverchair Platform for modernized digital library

Silverchair announced today a new partnership with Royal Society Publishing to host their prestigious publications on the Silverchair Platform.

Royal Society Publishing hosts an extensive archive dating back to 1665, including ten leading journals specialising in cross disciplinary research. The Royal Society journals have played a part in some of the most fundamental, significant and life-changing discoveries in history and continue to shape scientific research.

Royal Society Publishing sought a responsive, proactive platform vendor to provide holistic support and to empower their goals as business models, data requirements, and technology evolve. When launched, the new sites will deliver a modern user interface, improved visibility and discoverability, and analytics tools for actionable business intelligence while simultaneously future-proofing the platform for the ever-changing landscape of open access and AI. 

“We are delighted to work with Royal Society Publishing to modernize and expand the reach of their important content corpus,” said Will Schweitzer, Silverchair CEO. “We look forward to incorporating the team into our vibrant client community as we work together to collectively advance scientific achievement.”

Royal Society Publishing Director Rod Cookson said, “We look forward to partnering with Silverchair to develop a new online home for the journals of the Royal Society, enabling Fellows, other researchers and librarians to make best use of the excellent content that we publish.”

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