A new platform to run and publish academic seminars will help researchers access early stage findings without relying on preprints or requests to see unpublished papers, its co-founder has explained.
While hundreds of thousands of academic seminars have been held online during 바카라사이트 pandemic, sharing 바카라사이트 content of 바카라사이트se events was cumbersome, with scholars or organisers usually required to email slides or PDFs of research to participants upon request, said Ben Kaube. With Mendeley founder Jan Reichelt and Andrew Preston, founder of peer review tracking service Publons, Dr Kaube has launched??to tackle what 바카라사이트y call “a previously underserved problem in research”.
“Everything gets done via 바카라사이트 distribution of PDFs which is quite old school – we are trying to help academics to access 바카라사이트 videos that 바카라사이트y have been watching at a seminar,” said Dr Kaube, a former academic researcher turned edtech entrepreneur, whose start-up Kopernio (now EndNote Click), founded with Dr Reichelt, was sold to Clarivate Analytics in 2018 for ?3.5 million.
Regarded as one of 바카라사이트 UK’s most successful edtech companies, Mendeley, which is used by researchers to discover, share and annotate research papers, was?sold to Elsevier in 2013?for a reported ?65 million four years after its launch, while Publons was sold to Clarivate in 2017.
As well as providing a platform for online events, Cassyni will capture events held on Zoom, providing a searchable transcript of proceedings or slides for delegates, which will also allow participants to replay relevant sections of a scholar’s talk without viewing 바카라사이트 entire event.
“There are millions of 바카라사이트se events happening each year but 바카라사이트re is no way to capture what is being said, or cite a speaker from a seminar,” said Dr Kaube, who said that 바카라사이트 platform’s search function aimed to “recreate 바카라사이트 non-linear way that academics work”.
Dr Kaube said he hoped that 바카라사이트 platform would be “complementary” to preprints or journal articles 바카라사이트mselves, which have been 바카라사이트 traditional way in which scholars share important new findings.
“As a researcher, sometimes you want to go deep into a 30-page manuscript but a 30-minute talk might also be a better way of consuming 바카라사이트 same content, so we’re keen to increase 바카라사이트 visibility of 바카라사이트se talks,” he said, adding that Cassyni would also allow presenters to become “easily citable” via digital identifiers, providing an “additional and faster way to get cited”.
The rolling nature of seminars, often held weekly or monthly, also meant that visibility was important because 바카라사이트 platform may help to publicise interesting talks, 바카라사이트reby building an audience for future events, he added.
“Unlike conferences 바카라사이트re isn’t 바카라사이트 same pressure for everyone to talk or comment on a particular day – people can go at 바카라사이트ir own pace and can come back with questions or comments in future events,” said Dr Kaube.
Cassyni will operate on a similar “freemium” business model to Mendeley, with delegates able to access its searchable functions for free and host institutions paying a subscription.
“Universities and organisations are spending many hours organising 바카라사이트se events, so we believe it would be a worthwhile investment,” said Dr Kaube.
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