QScience makes it easier to comment and share research

The QScience and ReadSocial partnership makes it possible for readers of QScience journals to add commentary to any paragraph of any research article on the site, and not just at the end of the piece where the context of a comment is often lost.

This means that when other researchers come to the article they'll see comments made by others adjacent to the relevant paragraph, and they can respond with a comment, link or image. QScience is the first academic publisher to deploy this technology.

Paul Coyne, Technical Systems Director at QScience, said, "ReadSocial fits perfectly into the QScience vision that research should be open, transparent, shareable and social. We are very excited about this new development and believe that it will demonstrate to our authors our commitment to making their works highly visible, read and cited."

Travis Alber, co-founder of ReadSocial, said, "QScience.com was among the first publishers to pick up on the value of ReadSocial and we're excited to be working with them. Authors and readers can now benefit from seeing all the conversations around an article anywhere that article appears. Adding a contextual, social layer will build on the community's knowledge."

ReadSocial is a mobile-and-web solution for publishers and developers who want to integrate universal annotations and reading groups with their content. It is also ideal for academic environments where close reading and commenting on text is essential to the user experience.

QScience is at the forefront of implementing new developments in the industry. In addition to utilising ReadSocial for all research articles, article-level metrics are now available and openly accessible to all.

QScience.com's advanced technology makes research findings readily accessible and searchable using multimedia functionalities to support text, data, audio and video formats. It is also the first scholarly research platform to make journal abstracts available in both English and Arabic.