Remarq has proven its effectiveness engaging users, — inspiring more site visits, inviting more expansive reading, and moving users deeper into the full-text and beyond abstracts. Remarq also continues to be adopted by more journals and more users. A recent analysis also shows that Remarq users are engaging not only with the publisher’s content, but with the service itself, engaging intensely at first, and then habitually using the service to help them note important passages and create groups to discuss topics or work on projects. Users make numerous notes, highlights, and comments in the first 1-2 days after registration, using Remarq across multiple articles as they explore the utility of the tools Remarq offers them. But even more than 30 days after ...
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As 2017 ended, analyses of the initial pilots for Remarq® revealed how effectively the product increases engagement for readers, to the benefit of editors, authors, and publishers. In some cases, we compared a number of measurements before and after activation of Remarq. We were able to compare Remarq journals to non-Remarq journals in portfolios where Remarq was only placed on a subset of titles. Using the first 60 journals employing Remarq as the population, we found a both a comparative effect and a portfolio effect. The comparative effect relates to how Remarq-enabled journals compared to journals without Remarq in the same publisher portfolio. The differences were impressive: Users returned for 3-4 times as many sessions on Remarq-enabled journals Users of Remarq-enabled journals ...
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Author support is a new strategic priority for many publishers, as open access (OA) business models move to the center, as competition for papers intensifies, and as author expectations evolve to include community connections via online services. Remarq® helps editors and publishers support authors in a number of key and unique ways: Remarq connects readers with authors and their works by providing tools for article sharing, article following, article mark-up, and commenting Authors can use Remarq to update their articles: Announce talks related to the article or topic Point to other online sources of interest, such as related data sets and emerging news Amend the article with new, relevant citations to help readers expand their reading Remarq’s integration with ORCID helps ...
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Collaboration is a challenge for everyone. It’s difficult to focus on an issue and move forward with others in unison to find a solution or identify ideas. Successful collaboration requires a trusted environment, faith in those you’re working with, and a sense of security. While Remarq has many obvious attributes — it meets and exceeds open annotation standards, supports roles and functions scholarly publishers expect for authors, editors, and users, and features moderation, groups, updates, and live feeds, as well as an elegant, intuitive interface — what also sets Remarq apart is a secure, well-developed collaborative environment designed to instill user confidence. Users identified with their true names. Remarq validates the identities of participants and allows users to create rich ...
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RedLink has been fortunate to work with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to bring RedLink Network and our Library Dashboard tool to the Zimbabwe University Librarians Consortium (ZULC) as a first step in a developing partnership. INASP Associate, Ann Okerson, was instrumental in setting up this partnership, and we took the opportunity for a Q&A with Ann. Ann – many people are familiar with your work with the Center for Research Libraries, and know you from your role with the Liblicense-l listserv, but may not know about the path that brought you here. Can you talk a bit about your career path, and key events or issues that led you to make some of the ...
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Having analyzed the market and developed a leading-edge solution, the Remarq™ team has developed a set of 11 questions publishers can ask themselves when considering how to bring scholarly collaboration to their users and sites. Questions include important issues like: Does the solution require users to use their actual identities? Does the solution allow authors, editors, and users to assert copyright over their contributions? Is the solution user-centric or content-centric? Does it provide editors and publishers with the proper control points? Does it support legal article-sharing? For the full set of questions and our informed answers, please contact us for a free copy of “11 Questions to Ask When Considering a Scholarly Collaboration Solution.”
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The recent pre-print about scholarly materials available via Sci-Hub (https://peerj.com/preprints/3100/) reveals that most scholarly and scientific publishers have suffered what may be irreparable damage to their stores of intellectual capital. That said, their users remain loyal and remain engaged with their brands — for now. The game has clearly shifted, from protecting content to protecting user loyalty. If publishers can do that well, they could make Sci-Hub a toothless threat. Remarq™ is built to increase engagement on the publisher’s Version of Record. It does this by encouraging collaboration, fostering engagement with a trusted brand and its emissaries (editors, authors, publishing personnel), supporting legal article-sharing, and making it easy to connect with colleagues. Studies have shown that despite this wide availability of ...
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There are inflection points in the development of various technologies and media, points of departure before which things were a jumble and after which change accelerates and there’s no turning back. Take, for instance, color in cinema. It had been experimented with and dreamed about and talked about, but once The Wizard of Oz brought it to life in a memorable, mainstream, and meta manner (with the movie itself jumping from black-and-white to vibrant color inside the movie), there was no turning back. A similar moment came in the late 1970s for cinema with the release of the original Star Wars. There’s a convincing argument that you can describe people as pre-Star Wars or post-Star Wars in their expectations of special effects, ...
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Running a technology company, I’m both enthusiastic and skeptical when it comes to what technology can do. There are many who over-promise, yet there are many who deliver beyond what people initially expect. So, when a product like SiteLeads™ launches, I watch that transition from theory to practice carefully. Does it work as planned? Is it generating truly useful leads for publishers? Would I use it if I were the customer? Could I rely upon the underlying approach and technology? Happily, SiteLeads™ continues to exceed expectations in every test we throw at it, which means with every customer utilizing it. That’s where the rubber meets the road, where proof meets pudding. Because the SiteLeads™ technology derives its recommendations from what I call “ground truth” ...
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At RedLink, we speak to librarians and publishers every day about how they use data to make decisions and strategic choices. A common thread is that using data is difficult and time-consuming work, so it’s not something that’s normally part of their workflow. Getting data can require filing a request with IT or an analytics person, areas that are commonly over-committed. This leads to a lot of waiting. Worse, the red tape many face makes people reluctant to ask for data, since they know their coworkers are inundated with requests and the process is a burden. They want to spare themselves and their colleagues the stress of one more task. For publishers who work with sales agents, data access challenges can lead ...
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