Congratulations! You’ve published your work
OPENLY AVAILABLE.. BROADLY ACCESSIBLE?
How do I use Kudos?
Help people find it
Choosing the best home for your research is increasingly complex.
EXPLAIN
• Which journal is the best fit for your findings? • Who provides the best service? • What if you want to make your article Open Access (OA)?
With over a million new research publications each year, it’s not enough to sit back and wait for readers to find your work. You are best placed to know who might be interested in what you have published.
SHARE
The good news is that there are over 10,000 OA journals for you to choose from. But, making your work openly available is just the beginning. What else can you do to open up your work?
what their work is about and why it’s important, and add links to other materials that set it in context
trackable links generated by Kudos, via email and social networks, and to other websites
MEASURE
the effect on clicks, views, altmetrics, downloads and citations to learn which efforts and media are most effective
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Don’t be shy about telling them where to find it! Make the most of your article’s OA status by ensuring it has lots of readers.
Help people understand it Think about people in other fields, who might be able to apply your work in unexpected ways – if they can see its relevance. Or people outside academia, who might make professional or industrial use of your work if its meaning is not hidden from them.
Even the general public can play a role – such as patients finding studies to discuss with their doctors.
Track results to achieve more visibility
Get your institution, Facts about publisher and Kudos society to help!
If you use Kudos to explain and share your work, we’ll gather relevant publication metrics and map them against your outreach efforts so you can see which communications had most effect on your readership.
You aren’t the only person who wants to ensure your work is found, read and applied or cited by the broadest possible audience.
This means you can learn about the best way to build visibility, readership and usage of your work – efficiently.
Using Kudos correlates to an increase in full text downloads by...
Kudos helps your institution, publisher and society build on your efforts and so help maximize the reach of your work.
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Free service Quick and simple to use Proven to increase readership Keeps track of outreach wherever you do it Centralized reporting of full text downloads, altmetrics and citations • Across all publications with a CrossRef DOI