Researchers.One is an online platform for scholarly publishing, community building, research collaboration and curation. The Researchers.One platform is founded on the principles that all researchers in all disciplines should have autonomy over their research and its dissemination, authority to decide how best to conduct their research, and access to publish their work and obtain peer feedback.
The platform was founded in 2018 by Harry Crane and Ryan Martin. A more detailed explanation of the vision behind Researchers.One can be found inThe Researchers.One Mission.
Click here to create an account on Researchers.One. You will then receive an email confirmation with a link that will confirm your account. Once confirmed you are ready to create a profile and begin engaging.
In keeping with the Researchers.One mission of autonomy, authority and access for all researchers, any registered user can submit articles for peer review and publication on Researchers.One. All articles submitted to Researchers.One are immediately made publicly available for download and review.
To submit an article, click here. Before submitting, be sure to create your Researchers.One account.
To revise your article, log in and select the ‘My Articles’ option under your name on the top right of the menu. Find the list of previously submitted articles and click the Edit button corresponding to the article you’d like to revise.
All articles posted on Researchers.One are available for public comment in the ‘Conversations’ section below the article document. Comments can be posted in the text box or by uploading an attachment. In the spirit of transparency, all comments are publicly visible to all visitors and cannot be removed once posted. Researchers.One does not provide the option for private feedback, but private comments can be sent via email or other means.
The Researchers.One terms and conditions have been designed to make use of and publishing on the platform as easy and unrestricted as possible. In short, Researchers.One wants users of the site to retain as much freedom and control as possible. For authors on the platform, Researchers.One does not restrict copyright in any way. Authors are free to publish their work in as many other outlets as they deem appropriate. For users of the platform, Researchers.One does not censor or restrict speech of any kind, except for comments which are judged as spam or comments which are libelous or otherwise determined to be in violation of law or cause additional liability for Researchers.One.
The precise terms and conditions can be found here.
Researchers.One is a grass roots, non-profit organization that is funded by personal contributions of its founders and other generous supporters in diverse research communities. Researchers.One is not backed by any large organizations and does not charge the public to access posted articles. The $10 submission fee offsets of the costs associated with creating, maintaining and sustaining the Researchers.One web platform and publishing initiative.
Although some maintenance fee is necessary to the operation and continued improvement ofResearchers.One, it is our mission to keep this fee as low as possible. The submission fee of $10 provides authors, first, with a central place to make their work available, fully open-access, to be read and discussed by the research community in an open forum and, second, entitles authors to obtain feedback on their work through the platform’s comments feature. Future versions of the site are expected to provide even more features to our published authors. Because Researchers.One uses 100% of its revenue to maintain and improve the platform, without any administrative overhead, our submission fee is a tiny fraction of those required for publication in traditional open access journals.
An important role played by traditional scholarly journals is as a filter to help researchers find relevant work in a specific subject area or with a common theme. To provide this filtering service without giving authority to an editorial board,Researchers.One introduced the new ‘Community’ feature, which gives every user the opportunity and tools necessary to create their own filter on a subject area or theme of their choice. In other words, when a user creates a Community, he/she effectively becomes an editor of their own journal, free to judge which articles are relevant and sufficiently interesting to be highlighted on their community page. Other users can recommend articles to be highlighted on any community page.
Any user registered at Researchers.One can create a community. First log in and click ‘Create a Community’ under the Communities tab in the page header. Choose a name, unique identifier or handle (like on Twitter), a set of keywords, write a description of what the community is about, and that’s it. Since recommendations of articles to highlight on the community page can come from other users, the community owner/creator might set the community as Moderated, so that he/she (or anyone he/she designates as a moderator) can decided whether a recommended article should be highlighted on the community page.
Any user registered at Researchers.One can recommend any article---not just articles they authored---to be highlighted on a Community page. To make a recommendation, log in and navigate to the relevant article page. On the top right, click the `Recommend’ button. A window will open where you can select any Communities you’d like to recommend the article to. If the Community is Not Moderated, then the article will automatically be highlighted on that community page; if the Community is Moderated, then the owner/moderator decides to accept the recommendation and highlight the article or not.
The best way to support Researchers.One is to publish your articles on the platform, foster community discussion and involvement, and engage other researchers through public review and curating content through our Communities and Journals features.
For those wishing to provide financial support, Researchers.One is a registered charity with 501(c)(3) status under the US Tax Code. Donations to Researchers.One are tax deductible and go a long way toward advancing the mission of open science and scholarship. If you would like to contribute to this cause, visit the Support section of the site.
Our preferred mode of contact is via Twitter, @ResearchersOne. However, users are also welcome to contact us via email at contact@researchers.one. Users can also contact Harry and Ryan at their personal email accounts.
When publishing on Researchers.One, authors are encouraged, but not required, to use the provided LaTeX or Word templates for their submissions.
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