In less than a year, Remarq has blossomed from a sophisticated and well-designed annotation tool to become the robust, full-featured engagement platform we envisioned. The road has seen many milestones along the way. Prior releases have introduced Groups, full user profiles, article-sharing capabilities, article-claiming capabilities, author and editor update features, and ORCID integration. We’ve also made the tool faster, introduced a browser plug-in to support use across the web, and added dozens of journals to the family of Remarq publications. In its latest release, which was launched on May 22, Remarq has added important new editorial, marketing, and user-centric features: Robust, Discoverable Profiles – Remarq profiles are now more robust, and will be discoverable via major search engines; users can manage profile visibility Post-Publication Review – ...
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Partnership enables one-step integration of the ORCID and the Remarq user profile. 6 September 2017, Westborough, MA — RedLink and ORCID are pleased to announce an integration that will provide seamless pre-population of profiles in Remarq® when users sign into Remarq with their ORCID credentials. Remarq is a collaboration tool offering annotation, commenting, author updates, editorial updates, professional connections, and article sharing, all on the publisher’s site and utilizing the version of record. Remarq provides a powerful and smoothly integrated set of tools that support authors, editors, and users. By supporting engagement on the version of record. ORCID provides identifiers for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. These identifiers enable transparent and trustworthy connections ...
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RedLink has been fortunate to work with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to bring RedLink Network and our Library Dashboard tool to the Zimbabwe University Librarians Consortium (ZULC) as a first step in a developing partnership. INASP Associate, Ann Okerson, was instrumental in setting up this partnership, and we took the opportunity for a Q&A with Ann. Ann – many people are familiar with your work with the Center for Research Libraries, and know you from your role with the Liblicense-l listserv, but may not know about the path that brought you here. Can you talk a bit about your career path, and key events or issues that led you to make some of the ...
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RedLink sat down recently with Advisory Council member, Howard Ratner, for a Q&A. Please tell us a bit about yourself – where did you grow up, where and what did you study? I grew up in New York City and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, NY with a BA in History. How did you enter the field of academic publishing? What was your first role, and your path to your current position? My career began as many do in publishing: copy-editing and researching at Chelsea House Publishers — a small history book publisher. I then moved on to various book and journal production positions at John Wiley & Sons and Springer-Verlag. I became increasingly more involved in technology and ...
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The recent pre-print about scholarly materials available via Sci-Hub (https://peerj.com/preprints/3100/) reveals that most scholarly and scientific publishers have suffered what may be irreparable damage to their stores of intellectual capital. That said, their users remain loyal and remain engaged with their brands — for now. The game has clearly shifted, from protecting content to protecting user loyalty. If publishers can do that well, they could make Sci-Hub a toothless threat. Remarq™ is built to increase engagement on the publisher’s Version of Record. It does this by encouraging collaboration, fostering engagement with a trusted brand and its emissaries (editors, authors, publishing personnel), supporting legal article-sharing, and making it easy to connect with colleagues. Studies have shown that despite this wide availability of ...
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New enhancements significantly increase the social aspects of the collaboration platform 25 July 2017, Westborough, MA — RedLink is pleased to announce the latest release of Remarq which includes robust collaboration components and supports author and editorial updates as well as publisher and editor administration and analytics. Additionally, this new release includes: Full user profiles The ability to follow and connect with other users Real-time feeds of updates and events across Remarq Remarq is a collaboration tool offering annotation, commenting, and article sharing, all on the publisher’s site and utilizing the version of record. Remarq provides a powerful and smoothly integrated set of tools that support authors, editors, and users. By supporting engagement on the version of record, Remarq offers ...
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RedLink launched Remarq™ in mid-May, and announced IOP Publishing’s adoption of the service at the 2017 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting in Boston. But launching Remarq (and giving away 300 Remarq “Q” cookies) represented only part of what we were doing. RedLink was a Silver Sponsor, which included sponsoring an innovative professional portrait studio allowing attendees to get new headshots done by a professional photographer at no charge (a donation to support the SSP Fellowship program was encouraged). Mary Beth Barilla, our Director of Publisher Relations, was a Co-Chair on the Annual Meeting Committee, in this her third and final year in the role. She received the SSP’s Appreciation Award for her excellent work helping to lead and coordinate ...
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Remarq goes beyond annotations to create an entire system of engagement around journal articles, with levels of engagement that users can use as they see fit: Private engagement with content – highlighting and private annotations Semi-private engagement – article-sharing, following articles, polls, profiles Public engagement – qualified comments, post-publication reviews, and author and editor updates This approach, which is essentially “decentralized social,” provides a combination of features that David Worlock described succinctly in a recent blog post: “Remarq . . . enable[s] any publisher to create community around annotated discussion and turn it into scholarly exchange and collaboration.” Publishers and users are familiar with the downsides of centralized social media — algorithms that litter feeds with misinformation or distractions; social networks ...
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Remarq goes beyond annotations to create an entire system of engagement around journal articles, with levels of engagement that users can use as they see fit: Private engagement with content – highlighting and private annotations Semi-private engagement – article-sharing, following articles, polls, profiles Public engagement – qualified comments, post-publication reviews, and author and editor updates This combination of features delivers what David Worlock described succinctly in a recent blog post after he saw Remarq demonstrated at the recent UKSG Meeting in Harrogate, UK: “Remarq . . . enable[s] any publisher to create community around annotated discussion and turn it into scholarly exchange and collaboration.” A major component of exchange and collaboration is the ability for users to find one another ...
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RedLink is working with Canadian Science Publishing as it develops Remarq, a new editorial engagement tool for publishers. RedLink is pleased to announce a testing partnership with Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) for Remarq™, a new tool for publishers offering annotation, commenting, article sharing, and collaboration, all on the publisher’s site and utilizing the version of record. Remarq™ keeps researchers and readers on publisher-branded sites by providing a powerful and smoothly integrated set of tools that support authors, editors, and users. Initially, Remarq™ is focused on article-level tools, such as private annotation, public comments, article sharing, and a basic user profile. “Remarq solves a number of problems at once for editors, authors, publishers, and readers,” said Kent Anderson, CEO, RedLink. “Best ...
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