Clarivate Analytics partners with Impactstory to make open access content easier for researchers to use

Clarivate Analytics today announced a novel public/private strategic partnership with Impactstory that will remove a critical barrier for researchers: limited open access (OA) to high-quality, trusted peer-reviewed content. Under the terms of the partnership, Clarivate Analytics is providing a grant to Impactstory to build on its oaDOI service, making open access content more easily discoverable, and the research workflow more efficient from discovery through publishing. The world of science publishing is complex. Researchers conducting online searches for scholarly articles frequently get unreliable results that can compromise their work. This is typically because the results omit journal articles behind paid-subscription paywalls or because “web-scraping” utilities return versions of articles that are not peer-reviewed or are in violation of copyright laws. The partnership between Clarivate Analytics and Impactstory will enable a more inclusive approach that provides researchers and institutions of all sizes with open access to trusted research, in a way that can be sustained across the broad science publishing ecosystem. The oaDOI service is from Impactstory, a nonprofit creating online tools to make science more open and reusable. It currently indexes 90 million articles and delivers open-access full text versions over a free, fast, open API that is currently used by over 700 libraries worldwide and fulfills over 2 million requests daily. Impactstory has also ...
Source: News from STM - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Open Access World Source Type: news