ScienceOpen

ScienceOpen began in 2013[4] when Alexander Grossmann,[5] a professor of Publishing Management at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and former publishing director at scientific house De Gruyter, and Tibor Tscheke, president and CEO of content management systems company Ovitas, decided to start a platform that would allow researchers to share scientific information, both formally by publishing articles and participating in post-publication peer review, and informally by reviewing their colleagues’ work, providing endorsements and comments, and by updating their own papers.

Its beta version was introduced in November 2013, and release 1.0 launched in May 2014.[6] In September 2015, ScienceOpen hit the 10 million article record mark.[7] In June 2016 they announced their partnership with SciELO, the largest publisher in Latin America, to enable discovery of SciELO content in ScienceOpen.[8] Additional publishing partners include UCL Press, Emerald Publishing,[9] Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, PeerJ, Open Library of the Humanities, Society for Microbiology, Karger, Equinox, Hogrefe, EDPSciences, UTS ePRESS, Higher Education Press,[10] Europes Journal for Psychology,[11] The Italian Society of Victimology[12] and more.

As of January 2018 the site had 38 million articles and records from PubMed Central, ArXiv, PubMed, SciELO, and numerous individual publishers. ScienceOpen provides a publicly available citation index which is free for researchers to use wherever they are and is provided at no cost to libraries, which in February 2016 was dubbed the Open Citation Index.[13]

ScienceOpen offers open access journal hosting services,[14] as well as advanced indexing and promotional services that showcase customer content within the discovery platform.

Every research article on ScienceOpen has a traceable genealogy through citations, a public peer review process, and social interaction tracked by altmetrics, which they call research "context".[15] The technology behind the ScienceOpen platform is provided by Ovitas.

ScienceOpen appoints members of the research community as Collection Editors[16] who curate articles from multiple publishers in any topic. Collections support discovery of and within research communities. All content on the platform is available for post-publication peer review by scientific members with five or more peer-reviewed publications on their ORCID, and all articles can be publicly commented on by members with one or more items.

ScienceOpen has its headquarters located at Pappelallee 78-79, 10437 Berlin, Germany and its technical hub is at 155 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803, USA.

• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
• Open access in Germany
• List of academic databases and search engines

• Official website
• ScienceOpen Research, ISSN 2199-1006
• ScienceOpen Posters, ISSN 2199-8442