BERLIN ScienceOpen GmbH Pappelallee 78/79 FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION 10437 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49-30-6098490-277 Fax: +49-30-69088500

ScienceOpen partners with Bioscientifica to BOSTON ScienceOpen, Inc. increase the discoverability of biomedical 60 Mall Rd Burlington research MA 01803, USA Tel: +1-781-222-5230 Fax: +1-781-272-0577 Berlin & Bristol, May 29, 2019 eMail: [email protected] ScienceOpen and the biomedical publisher Bioscientifica are pleased to announce a partnership that integrates open-access articles from seven endocrinology and reproduction journals published by Bioscientifica in the ScienceOpen research discovery environment in the form of a featured collection.

Owned by the Society for Endocrinology, Bioscientifica exists to support biomedicine, strengthening biomedical communities to advance science and health. All of the journals included in the ‘Bioscientifica Open Endocrinology & Reproduction’ collection on ScienceOpen are society-owned and high-impact, sitting in the top two quartiles of the Science Citation Expanded Index. This new collection features Open Access articles from journals Endocrine-Related Cancer,

European , Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, Reproduction, and the fully open-access journal Endocrine Connections. Case reports from the open-access database Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports are also included.

ScienceOpen, Bioscientifica and the journal’s owning societies, Society for Endocrinology, European Society of Endocrinology and Society for Reproduction and Fertility are committed to increasing the discoverability of biomedical research. Embedded in the ScienceOpen discovery platform of over 55 million article records, the ‘Bioscientifica Open Endocrinology & Reproduction’ featured collection is put in a global research environment with dynamic sorting and filtering tools. Interactive features such as community curation, article reviews, and comments create a space for researcher engagement. Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Victoria Merriman, Marketing Manager at Bioscientifica, says “Partnering with Dr. Stephanie Dawson Prof. Dr. Alexander Grossmann ScienceOpen offers Bioscientifica’s authors another avenue for their articles to be Tibor Tscheke found and read. It also offers authors the ability to add further information to Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg supplement their article, including lay summaries, additional images, colleague’s Registernummer: HRB 151322 B reviews, as well as quick social media sharing functionality. We hope that this USt-ID-Nr. DE292305625 collection allows our readers to find highly relevant endocrinology and reproduction articles, all free to read in one place.”

Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen, says “Society publishing represents some of the most community-driven scholarly communication available. We are very happy to be able to support societies with a wide range of tools to further promote

communication around their open access articles and journals and promote them as an attractive publishing outlet for authors.”

This partnership between ScienceOpen and Bioscientifica integrates open-access endocrinology and reproduction research in the broader research discovery environment with the aim of highlighting its scientific and social importance.

Keywords: academic publishing, Bioscientifica, open access, biomedicine, endocrinology, reproduction, science, Collection

About ScienceOpen: From promotional collections to Open Access hosting and full publishing packages, ScienceOpen provides next-generation services to academic publishers embedded in an interactive discovery platform. ScienceOpen was founded in 2013 in Berlin and Boston by Alexander Grossmann and Tibor Tscheke to accelerate research communication.

Contact:

Stephanie Dawson, CEO @Science_Open. Email: [email protected]

About Bioscientifica:

Bioscientifica exists to support biomedicine. Through their expertise in publishing, events, and association management, they strengthen biomedical communities to advance science and health. Bioscientifica collaborates with leading biomedical societies to publish and develop journals that have high impact, a wide reach, and a healthy financial return. Bioscientifica is owned by the Society for Endocrinology, and all profits are redistributed back to biomedicine.

Contact:

Victoria Merriman, Marketing Manager @Bioscientifica. Email: [email protected]

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