MyScienceWork

Type Global Scientific Platform
Headquarters San Francisco and Luxembourg
Founder(s) Virginie Simon, Tristan Davaille
Website MyScienceWork.com
Alexa rank 83,572
Available in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian
Launched 2010

MyScienceWork is a company that develops online communication platforms for research institutions, integrated under a single, global portal. Its Enhanced Repositories make use of various channels available to enhance the dissemination and communication of research: open access to scientific publications, an innovative search engine, and science popularization.[1] The Enhanced Repositories are connected to an international community of researchers and science enthusiasts called MyScienceWork.com.

Creation

MyScienceWork was created in August 2010[2] by Virginie Simon,[3] a researcher in cancer nanotechnology, and Tristan Davaille, a financial engineer. The global platform www.MyScienceWork.com, online since January 2013, provides free and instantaneous access to more than 2,500 scientific databases cataloguing over 31 million research publications available online:[4] over 20 million in open access with PDF download and 10 million priced for individual purchase from scientific publishers. In October 2014, MyScienceWork opened its American offices in San Francisco.[4] The first MyScienceWork Enhanced Repository for research institutions was released in December 2014.[1]

Enhanced Repositories

Purpose

The Enhanced Repositories are a tool addressing the needs of research institutions in terms of communication, networking, collaborations and steering of research priorities. Researchers are also increasingly active in enhancing their own visibility and impact metrics, as more universities take these measures into account in the promotion and evaluation of researchers.[5] The multichannel communication platforms offered by MyScienceWork include interconnected functionalities responding to these specific needs.[5]

Features

Archives

The Enhanced Repositories are intended for institutions to archive their publications, research data, theses, videos, posters, etc., and may be linked to existing archives, like ArXiv, PubMed and HAL.

Metrics

The metrics tools allow institutions to track the performance of their research teams and their overall production, and observe trends in both. The repository dashboard provides an overview of publications’ impact, and the metrics can be filtered to report consultation of publications by reader, country and discipline.

Professional Profiles

Researchers create profiles, similar to LinkedIn’s, within their Repository and can build their network by adding contacts from their own institution or from MyScienceWork’s international community. Keywords provided in the profile are used by the platform’s tools to offer suggestions of publications and contacts personalized for each user. Other tools designed to facilitate professional collaboration and interaction allow for the sharing of documents and annotating publications.

Dissemination

The homepage of the Enhanced Repositories is dedicated to popular science communication aimed at non-specialists of the field and the public and provides links to the main social networks.[6] In parallel to the repository, institutions have a public institutional page displaying a new form of science communication that the company calls “Triplets”. The Triplets present a popularized article alongside the related scientific publication and the profile of the researcher-author.

MyScienceWork and open access

MyScienceWork supports the circulation of open-access scientific texts. Its search engine gathers the main open access databases online,[7] like PubMed, CiteSeer, DOAJ, Research Papers in Economics, ArXiv, HAL, Abes, BioMed Central, CERN, Persee, Revues.org, TEL, ORBI, and Public Library of Science.

In 2012 and 2013, MyScienceWork was national coordinator of International Open Access Week.[8]

A science popularization website

Since 2010, MyScienceWork has featured a popular science media outlet dedicated to news about multidisciplinary professional research.[9] It contains scientific news articles, video abstracts, researcher portraits, opinion pieces and collections about open access, women in science, earning a doctorate and science 2.0. Every Monday in 2013, MyScienceWork also released a new episode of Knock Knock Doc, the web series dedicated to PhD students.

Other scientific platforms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MyScienceWork announces launch of Enhanced Repositories for research, beginning with Luxembourg lab LBMCC". MERKURCorporateNews. 10 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Raizer, Thierry (27 May 2013). "CYEL Contest: The finalists (article in French)". PaperJam.
  3. ↑ "Portrait of Virginie Simon (article in French)". Leetchi.com. 14 April 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Antzorn, Frédéric (31 March 2014). "MyScienceWork takes on the United States (article in French)". PaperJam.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fulco, Hugo (12 December 2014). "MyScienceWork Launches New Research Repository Service in Luxembourg". Chronicle.lu.
  6. ↑ "Launch of Enhanced Repositories for research". Luxembourg Portal for Innovation and Research. 11 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Jung, Marie (30 April 2010). "MyScienceWork: a social network for researchers (article in French)". 01Business.
  8. ↑ Langlais, Pierre-Carl (29 October 2012). "Open Access week: Improve science and make it more available (article in French)". Rue89.
  9. ↑ "Presentation of MyScienceWork (video in French)". PaperJam. 7 December 2012.

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