R Discovery and Springer Nature Partner to Create An Open-access Content Bank for Global Researchers

The partnership will enable researchers to access Springer Nature’s content in the form of daily recommendations on R Discovery 

R Discovery, a Cactus Communications (CACTUS) brand, has partnered with Springer Nature, global academic publisher, to help broaden the reach of open access (OA) content to the global researcher community. The inclusion of Springer Nature’s OA portfolio into R Discovery means that the platform offers its over 1.4 million researchers access to high-quality OA content in over 32,000 journals worldwide across a breadth of subject areas.

Commenting on the partnership, Abhishek Goel, CEO & Co-founder, CACTUS, said, “Helping the scientific community with access to a vast bank of content is one of our top priorities. Our aim is to bring the most relevant and recently published scientific literature to the fingertips of researchers across the globe. By providing access to full-text open-access papers, we can facilitate content discovery and help save reading time. With this association, researchers will now have access to some of the most valuable OA research published in Springer Nature via the R Discovery app.”

Till Moepert, Vice President Indirect Channels at Springer Nature said, “Researchers are at the heart of what we do and ensuring access and engagement with high-quality content is central to the advancement of knowledge and discovery. With a long history in OA, we are committed to supporting researchers with streamlined routes to high-quality content in the fields of science, technology, medicine and the humanities and social sciences, alongside our wider commitment to supporting open data and open research, for example by creating the largest linked open data set in SciGraph and supporting FAIR data projects through our Text and Data Mining API’s. Partnering with the Cactus Communications R Discovery App enables us to continue this rich tradition of making open research accessible through new platforms and avenues and supporting the research community with access to the widest possible content, tools, and services.”

Among a host of CACTUS products, R Discovery is used by researchers regularly for literature search via the app or the web version. It currently has over 32,000 journals covering over 9.5 million research topics across subject areas such as life sciences, biology, medicine, philosophy, political science, environmental science, social sciences, and psychology. With more than 30 million open access articles available and access to paywalled articles with one’s university credentials, R Discovery is one of the largest repositories of research that is accessible on the go.

Springer Nature is one of the first major publishers to make their content available to R Discovery. By combining Springer Nature’s expertise in publishing high-quality research with R Discovery’s online platform for millions of researchers, both organizations aim to deliver an upgraded and seamless experience for the communities they serve.

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Cactus Communications (cactusglobal.com), a technology company accelerating scientific advancement. CACTUS solves problems for researchers, universities, publishers, academic societies, and life science organizations through innovative products and services developed under the brands Editage, Cactus Life Sciences, Researcher.Life, Impact Science, UNSILO, PaperPal and Cactus Labs. CACTUS has offices in Princeton, London, Aarhus, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, and Mumbai; a global workforce of over 3,000 experts; and customers from over 190 countries. CACTUS is considered a pioneer in its workplace best practices and has been consistently ranked a great place to work over the last several years.

About Springer Nature

For over 180 years Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help researchers uncover new ideas, make sure all the research we publish is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny, that it reaches all relevant audiences in the best possible format, and can be discovered, accessed, used, reused, and shared. We support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data; and provide quality publishing support to societies. As a research publisher, Springer Nature is home to trusted brands including Springer, Nature Portfolio, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan, and Scientific American. For more information, please visit springernature.com and @SpringerNature.

Patterbuzz - Discover premium content & pay only for what you read

There are millions of blogs to read and hundreds of apps distributing content. They are just pieces of individual opinions and news mongering without any expert backing. People are sharing content everywhere but no one thinks about the authenticity of the content. Bangalore based Patterbuzz started with a principle in mind. "There is enough authentic content from Indian authors/writers in the world. It needs to reach people in the way they want it and on all their devices with the best reading experience. We believe that well written articles are created after painstaking research and numerous cups of coffee and sleepless nights. And this is why the journalists and authors deserve their due," says the founder Amit. Patterbuzz separates premium and exclusive content from the noise.

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Amit came up with the idea in early 2012. Patterbuzz is the first platform in India to enable micropayments in content. It lets you buy a cover story for as low as Rs 2/- as opposed to buy a magazine for Rs 100/- and you can buy it by just sending an SMS. There is no such platform which unbundles the content and lets people chose on what they want. "Patterbuzz enables content discovery much better. Users discover content over the internet. In our iPAD app, People just select the type of content they wish to read and we curate the content 'editorially and algorithmically' for better content consumption experience," adds Amit.

They make sure that the content is authentic by partnering with the publishers. All the magazines and articles from various publishers on our platform are published after partnerships are completed. With their Android app recently launched on google play and already have an iOS App, Patterbuzz will now allow all the android users across the world to get the taste of original Indian content. "Our platform is growing and many more well-known magazines and authors are going to join Patterbuzz in next 3 months. Our focus is to get the best available content from India for users across the world," he adds.

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Patterbuzz wants people to read the best of information from the original and authentic sources. Their team of 7 people working from Bangalore are working together to make Patterbuzz vision realize and let people get they wish to read. The content can be bought from their website as well.

As a message for future entrepreneurs, Amit says "If you want to make a difference to people’s lives, give a few years to do it. Might be a few years for you, but it can change their whole life."