FOR RESEARCHERS FOR PUBLISHERS FOR SOCIETIES FOR INSTITUTIONS
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Kudos provides a toolkit for
increasing usage and impact of published research. We help publishers, institutions, societies and funders work more closely with researchers in pursuit of this
common goal.
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Kudos for Researchers Making sure research is found, read and applied
Researchers use Kudos to explain their work in plain language, and share it (by email, social media, academic networks and more) with potential readers both within and beyond the field. We are the only service that facilitates cross-publisher, cross-network, cross-metric, copyrightcompliant sharing of research. By centrally managing and measuring communications across different networks and tools, Kudos helps researchers understand which efforts are most effective at driving readership and citations. Wherever they choose to publish or share work, Kudos helps researchers make this more effective by providing a single toolkit to: • •
Open up research so new audiences can find and understand it Track the most effective networks for getting work read, discussed and
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cited Learn where to focus efforts to make best use of limited time Improve the metrics by which researchers are evaluated.
Over 100,000 researchers have signed up to explain and share their work via Kudos. It is quick and easy to use, and it works:
Kudos is so simple
Average time on site:
5 minutes
Average increase in downloads:
23%
to use - I can
effortlessly share my research on multiple platforms and track it from the Kudos dashboard.
Dr Mark F. Weems, University of Tennessee, USA
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Kudos for Publishers Increasing publication performance and developing closer relationships with author communities
Authors are increasingly sharing their work within private networks. Publication usage is being fragmented, putting subscriptions at risk, and publishers are being cut out of the picture in terms of understanding and building on new modes of scholarly communication. Kudos helps you connect with authors after publication, creating a partnership to drive impact for mutual benefit. Over 70 publishers have partnered with Kudos to increase usage, strengthen author care, and to ensure that promotional efforts are efficiently and effectively targeted. Kudos for Publishers gives you insight into which authors are actively communicating around their work, how, where, and to what effect. With Kudos for Publishers, you can: •
Increase usage by mobilizing authors to undertake more outreach,
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and motivating them to use copyright-compliant links Maximize results for authors with minimum effort, by amplifying their
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outreach efforts with just one click Build author loyalty by providing a broader range of services
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to help them improve the impact of their work Ensure you continue to attract the best submissions by identifying and engaging more closely with high-interest authors and rising stars Provide authors with tailored guidance for how best to use their limited time for outreach, by learning what is working for their peers
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Optimize your own communications resources by leveraging authors’ expertise and connections,
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and shaping your marketing and PR choices to reflect successful content and channels Benchmark the performance of publications
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against a wide range of metrics Improve the Kudos user experience
Kudos has been a unique and unexpected way to build relationships with some of the leading lights in our community.
Jonathan Agbenyega, Business Development Manager, International Union of Crystallography
for your authors and ensure that they focus their efforts on your publications.
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Kudos for Societies Strengthening member services by supporting broader visibility of members’ research
The traditional role of the society is being eroded, as digital developments and funding constraints mean researchers are embracing new ways to meet, network, and build their careers. Progressive societies are embracing new technologies to ensure that they continue to attract, recognize and retain members. Kudos enables you to identify, reward and showcase high performance in new ways, and provides you with new intelligence about current and prospective members to help you strengthen your services and relationships. We are the only platform that reports to societies about their members’ publishing and communication activities, across all the places they publish and communicate. With our new service, Kudos for Societies, you can: •
Develop a richer understanding of members’ publishing activities both within society publications, and beyond
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Motivate members to share and discuss their work in a way that enables the society to support and learn from these communications
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Find potential new members, by cross-referencing members of the society against authors in society publications, and against co-authors
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they have published with in other publications. Identify “influencers” based on a unique combination of metrics
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relating to their communications activities as well as to their publications performance Emphasize the society’s relevance to hot topics by promoting publications that are attracting attention across sources including traditional media, social media and Wikipedia
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Demonstrate support for members and increase the visibility of their work by showcasing it in websites and newsletters
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Expand professional development services for members by helping them learn how best to communicate their work to increase its impact.
Kudos not only supports researchers but enables us to access the same toolkit to drive our own services. We wanted to be early adopters to keep ahead of the wider range of support that researchers increasingly expect.
Hannah Baldwin, Head of Marketing, The IET
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Kudos for Institutions Improving research performance and strengthening research support
Both researchers and institutions are under pressure to grow their research profile. Kudos provides you with deep, actionable insight into the most effective ways to increase publication impact. Our simple toolkit can be used by all researchers, to manage communications across all channels, for all their publications. By helping them measure the effect of their efforts against a range of metrics, we’re mobilizing them to undertake more outreach, and helping you to leverage their expertise and networks. We then provide you with reports and tools that uniquely enable you to understand, amplify and support researchers’ efforts to improve the performance of their work: •
Help researchers achieve better results in less time – surface a wider range of communications (including those in “closed” channels such as email), track metrics back to these specific actions by researchers, then shape your guidance for them around what is having most effect
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Easily amplify their efforts to wider audiences – act on real-time feeds of researcher communications, rather than waiting for attention metrics to emerge Make research more accessible, for example to international or interdisciplinary audiences, by honing researchers’ writing skills
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Identify, acknowledge and reward researchers or departments who take proactive steps to increase the visibility of their work
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Strengthen support services and reduce fragmentation by enabling different parties – researcher, research office, library, communications team to view and build on each other’s efforts in one system
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Increase discoverability of works in university websites (e.g. the repository) by incorporating plain language explanations from Kudos – and benefit from more widespread dissemination of this metadata, including to search engines and subject indexes
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Demonstrate leadership in emerging fields by quickly acting on high levels of external interest generated by
We have been very impressed; Kudos does what it says on the tin
researchers’ efforts. Martin Gill, Head of Academic Services, University of Huddersfield
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Getting started Configuration and contact information
Pricing All Kudos services are available by annual subscriptions. Subscriptions can start at any time, and multi-year subscriptions are available with discounted prices. Partners Kudos works with partners including Altmetric, Atypon, Crossref, HighWire, Ingenta, Jisc Collections, ORCID, PubFactory, Ringgold, Semantico, Silverchair and Thomson Reuters to streamline implementation of Kudos for our clients. Set-up In most cases, no advance configuration is required and your dashboard access can be switched on within minutes of you signing up. Support Your dashboard contains resources to help you and your community get the most out of Kudos. Our support team will also be at your disposal to provide training and answer questions.
Contact us Publishers North America
Societies
Institutions
Rebecca Shumbata rebecca@growkudos.com
+1 617 237 7797
Steve Smith steve@growkudos.com
Rest of World
Ann Lawson ann@growkudos.com
+44 7852 179596
+44 7508 616045
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