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Papers, by ReadCube, simplifies your research life by dramatically enhancing how you discover, annotate, collaborate and cite research. Eliminate wasted hours manually wrangling information and get back to research with the Papers reference manager.

“I have been using Papers, by ReadCube Papers for the last three years and I find it so useful. It has all the necessary tools to annotate the PDF files that are very useful to mark desired texts for reading and for reviewing purposes. I can check for supplementary files if any and I can also check for the article metrics which is indeed a very useful option that I never found in any other PDF reader/editor”

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia

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The year 2023 will forever be remembered as the year that AI finally broke into the mainstream. But in the research ecosystem, what do we mean by AI and how is it already being used? Simon Linacre does what everyone has been doing and asks AI itself for some answers

Anyone would be forgiven for thinking that artificial intelligence (AI) had only just been invented given the huge interest that has suddenly been generated in it in 2023. However, AI actually has a long history, being first conceived of in the 1950s and gradually becoming a reality in the decades after. Nevertheless, a real step forward has been made with Generative AI, which can create seemingly flawless text or images in just seconds. But is it really that new?

Writing these words on a Google Doc, I have already accepted one or two suggestions from the predictive text function, itself a form of AI. When you realize that the words you have chosen have not 100% been your own, you can see how lines have started to blur with the more advanced Generative AI’s capabilities. However, caution must still be used as AI is more than capable of getting things wrong – just read Digital Science’s post on ‘The Lone Banana Problem’. Moreover, a lack of context or key detail can lead to misrepresentation or redundancy in the content being created.

Digital Science and AI

Digital Science has been using AI and related technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) for several years now – indeed, Dimensions has had https://www.dimensions.ai as its URL since its launch in 2018 – and it has become a trusted partner for hundreds of organizations that depend on its AI expertise. These are the ways Digital Science and its portfolio companies uses AI-related technologies in 2023:

Dimensions

• Document classification; Researcher Disambiguation; Research Integrity Trust Markers

OntoChem

• Image classification to decide whether an image shows a chemical compound; Entity recognition to decide whether a term describes a chemical compound

ReadCube

• Sentiment Analysis for Mentions; Article Recommendation Engine

metaphacts

• Knowledge Graph and graph-based reasoning

Writefull

• Core writing assistance offering is AI-based; AI detection

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The information above is correct because, well, I work at Digital Science and I know it to be true. It also breaks the information down by constituent parts in terms of each Digital Science company and how it uses the relevant technology. So what happens if we ask a Generative AI model how Digital Science uses AI? Well, we get the text below courtesy of OpenAI’s new ChatGPT iPhone app:

“Digital Science, as a company that provides scientific software and research solutions, utilizes AI in various ways. Here are a few examples:

• – Text and data mining: AI algorithms are employed to analyze large volumes of scientific literature, extracting valuable insights, identifying trends, and accelerating the discovery process.
• – Natural Language Processing (NLP): Digital Science uses NLP techniques to enhance the understanding and processing of scientific texts, enabling advanced search capabilities, automatic categorization, and semantic analysis.
• – Predictive analytics: AI models are trained on scientific data to predict outcomes, such as the success or impact of research projects, funding opportunities, or potential collaborations, helping researchers make informed decisions.
• – Recommendation systems: By employing machine learning algorithms, Digital Science can provide personalized recommendations to researchers, suggesting relevant articles, journals, or research resources based on their interests and previous activities.
• – Data visualization and exploration: AI-powered tools enable the creation of interactive visualizations and data exploration platforms, allowing scientists to gain deeper insights from complex datasets and facilitate data-driven decision-making.

These are just a few examples of how Digital Science incorporates AI into its offerings. The field of AI is rapidly evolving, and new applications are continually emerging to support scientific research and discovery.”
Source: ChatGPT

While all of the information presented by the AI is correct, it is broken down by technical functionality, only presenting ‘examples’ of how technology is used and not what it is used on. As such, it is technically very accomplished, but of little interest to most audiences who would miss the context of how the technology is actually being applied.

AI vs Humans

In 2023 while all the hoo-haa around Generative AI was at its peak, Digital Science launched a campaign called ‘Mind the Trust Gap’ which sought to underline the importance of trust in research among those who both carry out research itself and the rest of us who depend on its integrity and quality. The developments in AI technology are often compared to humans like it is some sort of competition or even battle, but it is perhaps more sensible to view it as a relationship entering a new phase, and trust is key to that relationship. As long as we can use AI with transparency and openness like the examples above, we can build a better understanding of the world around us.

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For many members of our research community, a new term is accompanied by many other novel opportunities. Perhaps you’ll be teaching a new course. Maybe you will be starting a long-awaited new research project. Have you finally found the perfect excuse to buy that new notebook you’ve had your eye on? Of course you have. Treat yourself!

While some things have remained unchanged during this pandemic, many of our regular research, teaching and learning activities have become more challenging. We’ve navigated new virtual learning environments, tried not to break expensive, remotely accessible lab equipment, and attended conferences from home while simultaneously juggling life admin, often physically as well as metaphorically.

At Digital Science, we offer a range of solutions that help keep your research going during these interesting times, and even when we return to that long-awaited ‘normal’. As we head into a brand new term, here are just some of the many ways that we can support you, our research community, whether you’re returning to campus or labs, or whether you’re continuing to work from home.

We’ve got a whole page dedicated to our COVID-19 initiatives, all designed to help you navigate your way through the COVID-19 crisis. Use our free search for COVID-19 related research outputs in Dimensions to discover the latest research, host your lecture slides, notes, conference outputs and research data on Figshare, write up your results with your collaborators wherever they are in the world using Overleaf, plan your next research project using Symplectic’s Research Funding Solution, find books relevant to your research using Altmetric, or prepare for your next research role with Scismic.

In more recent developments, Writefull’s new Full Edit mode helps you to proofread your scientific texts. Full Edit mode delivers the best AI-based language feedback you’ll find – it is even tailored to scientific writing, so you know that your research outputs are going to be impactfully worded.

As a researcher, being able to quickly find relevant information is crucial. Dimensions provides free access to over 120 million publications and preprints to help you find exactly what you need, quickly and easily. Furthermore, its in-built analytical tools also help you gain actionable insights to help you guide your research in the right direction. Find out more in this introduction for researchers or dive right in using this search box:

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Dimensions is updated every 24 hours, and includes over 120 million publications, as well as datasets, grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents, helping you not only find the most relevant research information, but also understand the wider context within which your research sits.

ReadCube’s Papers App is your all-in-one literature management tool designed to keep the clutter off your desk so you can spend more time focusing on your research. Papers allows you to read and annotate your research literature, share your papers with collaborators, and cite your fundamental research quickly and easily in your own research publications.

What about when it comes to reporting on the outputs and impact of your research and teaching? Symplectic Elements helps you showcase all of your academic achievements and activities by collecting and curating research information in an easy-to-maintain search and discovery interface. Use Elements to demonstrate impact and expertise, discover internal and external collaboration, find mentorship opportunities, and easily dive into connections across institutional networks.

These are just some of the ways we are helping support our researcher community. If you want to know more about how our tools can help you, head to our website or get in touch with us by email or on Twitter. We’d love to hear about how we’re helping you make a difference.

We wish you a great start to the new term!

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ACS creates new avenues for engagement and sharing by integrating Figshare into its journal platform

The American Chemical Society has integrated the Figshare
DataStore and Viewer into its full-text journal platform. This
venerable society publisher is also using the Figshare infrastructure
as a custom portal for its research outputs.

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ReadCube is a leader in scalable literature management, enhancing research driven teams by transforming the way scholarly literature is accessed, organized, and shared–making it possible to get back to the breakthrough work that matters most.

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“What we have achieved within just 7 months after the roll-out of ReadCube can only be considered a jump to the next level of literature management for our research scientists and has positioned Boehringer Ingelheim as front-runners within our industry.”

Dr. Karlheinz Spenny, Head of Scientific Information Center, Boehringer Ingelheim

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Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, scholarly publishers were quick to open up access to COVID-19 literature to the greater research community. These initiatives have provided much needed and timely access to the latest publications specifically covering the COVID-19 virus.

The CRP programme expands on these efforts to provide COVID-19 researchers with access to a broader set of content needed in the course of their research. Rather than pre-filtering access to specific articles related to COVID-19, the CRP allows researchers to access any article from participating publishers they may need while studying COVID-19, including both open access and content behind paywalls. The ability to access related and prior work can be particularly helpful to researchers studying ways of improving therapies, clinical, and public health outcomes. For example, topics such as ventilators or respiratory syndromes often remain behind paywalls. Additionally, the program can support COVID-19 researchers who are now working remotely and require remote access to literature.

Initial participating publishers include the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Springer Nature, and Wiley. We look forward to welcoming additional publishers to the programme and expanding the range of articles accessible to participants.

Key aspects of the programme include:

• Instant Full-Text Access. Pass holders can access free of charge any full-text article (or book chapter) required for use in the context of their COVID-19 research.
• Flexibility. Users can search within the portal or install a web browser extension which will alert them whenever they come across content covered by the programme.
• Collaboration. Participants can generate temporary sharing URLs that provide read-only access (printing and downloading disabled) to the full text to anyone outside the CRP programme. Here is a sample.  These links may be posted on social networking sites. Private collaboration groups are also accessible.
• Text & Data Mining. Participants may apply for automated Text and Data Mining Access (TDM) to full-text content.

The programme is available to researchers across corporate, government and academic labs, clinicians, and other health care providers, journalists, and policy-makers who are actively working on COVID-19 efforts.

Apply now via covid19.readcube.com

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GetFTR brings access to the full-text to the users. It makes the trustworthy full-text version of a research article available for the researcher in any discovery or analytical application, verifying in the background the entitlements and institutional subscriptions against publisher API’s. The service, developed by leading publishers, easily integrates with discovery tools and scholarly platforms to streamline user access to research.

Entitlements information from five publishers – American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group and Wiley – will initially be made available via GetFTR within Dimensions, Papers and Mendeley. 

The service was developed by publishers alongside the GetFTR advisory board which also included librarians and other software vendors. Digital Science played an active role in the development contributing to the API specification and server infrastructure. Researchers use a variety of discovery tools and scholarly platforms to find research. However, they often experience uncertainty, frustration and waste time as they browse results and click through to publisher websites, not knowing if they will have access. This experience drives them to alternative online sources that may be illegal, unreliable, and lack useful supporting materials and tools to aid them in their work. 

Digital Science is pleased to expand on its existing PDF access options with the GetFTR API.  Users can expect to find more direct View PDF access links to content across their research journey.  They can then seamlessly access the research on publisher websites. If the user does not have full access, participating publishers can provide access to an alternative version of the research, which will go substantially beyond the abstract, enabling the user to gain a better understanding of what the article is about.

Christian Herzog, CEO Dimensions, said: “After the release of our Anywhere Access in 2018, GetFTR is the logical next step in releasing one-click access to the full-text in any application, not only in publisher-specific silos or content aggregators. We are excited to implement the capabilities, with Dimensions and Papers users one of the first to use the new service!”

What are some of the key user benefits for GetFTR support in Dimensions? 

• View PDF links will now appear not only on OA content but also on subscription content, based on each user’s individual access entitlements at their institution.
• View PDF buttons in Dimensions’s search results make it easy for researchers to see what content they have 1-click access to. 

GetFTR can be used on devices both on and off-campus, from any browser, and without needing to install any software, removing technological restrictions that limit other solutions.

The GetFTR service makes use of the well-established federated access method to enable the display of the GetFTR indicator and the user’s seamless pathway to the research. By selecting an institution, users may easily navigate to OA and subscription content through a combination of direct, proxied, or WAYFless URLs, depending on their institution’s access settings and entitlements. 

One of the first five publishers involved is Springer Nature (SN). Stephen Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer at SN, said: “Serving the needs of researchers is at the heart of what we do and we are committed to meeting their changing needs in how and when they access content. Along with our existing partnership with ResearchGate, SeamlessAccess.org and SharedIt, our content sharing service, the development of GetFTR, by addressing the frustration researchers sometimes face when wasting time trying to access articles they don’t have access to, builds on this commitment.  

“We are very excited by the potential benefits of this new service and look forward to working with more publishers, discovery services and Scholarly Collaboration Platforms to ensure it benefits as many researchers as quickly as possible” 

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In this case study The Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx) highlight the interoperability of Digital Science products across their research cycle.

Using Digital Science tools, members of the OIEx are able to find experts and collaborate across multiple universities in the state of Ohio. This customer use case showcases our products Dimensions, Altmetric, Figshare, ReadCube, Symplectic. and Digital Science Consultancy.

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An inside look at the University of Michigan’s data driven approach to understanding their research expertise.

This customer use case showcases our products Dimensions, Altmetric, ReadCube and Symplectic.

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We knew that for this to be successful our solution had to check most, if not all of these boxes:

• Be easier and faster to use than existing tools (official and unofficial channels)
• Work everywhere researchers are looking for papers
• Be consistent in delivering full text
• Deliver a great reading experience
• Provide key metrics for libraries and publishers.

Working closely with researchers, libraries, and publishers, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Anywhere Access, a next-generation library solution that offers the fastest way for researchers to access open access, subscription and on-demand content.

How it works:

Anywhere Access integrates with a library’s holdings and authenticates users through their familiar institutional Single Sign-on (SSO). Once authenticated, Anywhere Access displays ‘View PDF’ links across all entitled content for that institution’s students and research staff. In a single click, users can view (and download) the PDF along with supplements, article metrics and other article enhancements – right within the discovery site.

A few things that make Anywhere Access (AA) unique:

• AA covers not only Open Access, but also an institution’s subscription holdings and document delivery in one simple workflow.
• AA is cloud-based, so it can be embedded directly into library discovery systems and third-party platforms as well as be accessible across the web through our browser extensions.
• AA streams interactive PDF including supplemental data
• AA is COUNTER-compliant, ensuring libraries and publishers receive the metrics they need to support collections and journal development activities

While Anywhere Access was designed to work wherever a researcher’s discovery path takes them, we can’t help but love the beautiful trifecta of Dimensions, Anywhere Access and ReadCube Papers. Together, they provide a seamless workflow for researchers from that first literature search all the way through to citing in their own manuscript!

Christian Herzog, CEO Dimensions said:

“Anywhere Access and Dimensions are a perfect match: a powerful discovery tool with 95m publications and 4 billion links, paired with the technology to get instant access to the full-text articles licensed by the own organisation – is the killer application everybody has been waiting for. Cross-publisher discovery and COUNTER compliant access brokering realised as a smart and almost invisible piece of infrastructure, allowing the user to lawfully access content on almost every location – a big thank you to the Readcube and Anywhere Access team for realising and integrating it into Dimensions!”

10 institutions have already signed on to Anywhere Access, including the University of Denver, California State University, Northridge and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver, said:

“The University of Denver became an early development partner on Anywhere Access because we wanted to make the process of accessing e-resources easier for our patrons. We hope to remove as much friction from the authentication process as possible so that the experience of accessing content – whether licensed, pay-per-view, or open – is as easy through library discovery tools as it is through rogue and pirate sites.”

To learn more about Anywhere Access, join one of our upcoming webinars: anywhereaccess.com/webinar or try Anywhere Access on Open Access content within Dimensions.

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