Taylor & Francis Partners with ReadCube to Enhance Discoverability of Article and Book Collections
Four million books, journals, and peer reviewed articles have been indexed and enhanced within ReadCube’s free Web, Desktop and Mobile platform.
Taylor & Francis, one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly content, today announced its partnership with publishing technology company, ReadCube. Through ReadCube’s Discover service, over four million Taylor & Francis journal articles and book chapters are now indexed and discoverable across ReadCube’s platform. By incorporating popular features from Taylor & Francis Online with those of ReadCube’s reference management tools, scholars will enjoy a more immersive and productive research experience.
“As a publisher, our priority is to enhance the online experience for academic customers, to enable them to discover research easily and effectively” says Max Gabriel, Chief Technology Officer, Taylor & Francis. “In order to create the most compelling and useful experience for readers, we are dedicated to using innovative solutions to remove barriers to research, and help our readers discover more, faster. Our partnership with ReadCube reflects this commitment, and is an example of how scientific technology companies and publishers can work together to facilitate discovery.”
When viewed within any of free ReadCube’s web, desktop or mobile apps, the best of the Taylor & Francis HTML reader experience is integrated into ReadCube’s signature Enhanced PDF format. Articles will feature clickable author names, hyperlinked in-line citations, direct access to supplemental content and figures, social sharing, annotation tools, and altmetrics, among other helpful features.
“We’re delighted to partner with Taylor & Francis,” said Robert McGrath, CEO of ReadCube. “Taylor & Francis is not only a leading publisher in the industry but more importantly, an organization that shares our vision, supporting researchers in their pursuits of discovering the bigger picture surrounding a paper - in one simple click of the mouse. The addition of their collection to our discovery tools and availability as enhanced PDFs, brings incredible value to our community.”
For more information, please contact:
Jodie Bell
Communications Manager (Media Relations)
Taylor & Francis Group
Email: Jodie.Bell@tandf.co.uk
Tel. 020 7017 6571
Alex Hodgson
Director of Marketing and Public Relations, ReadCube
Tel: +001 857 265 4945
About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, and Technology and Medicine. From our network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Boston, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Johannesburg, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues.
About ReadCube
ReadCube develops software to make the world of research more accessible and connected - serving researchers, publishers, academic and commercial organizations. ReadCube's web, desktop, and mobile reference management apps, including ReadCube and Papers brands, dramatically improve the way research find, organize, read, share, and cite research literature.
ReadCube’s publisher solutions, adopted by over 70 partners to date, include indexing via Readcube Discover, enhanced PDF viewing and sharing via ReadCube Connect, and article-level ecommerce via ReadCube Checkout. ReadCube is supported by Digital Science, a technology business unit wholly owned by global media company, the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. To find out more about ReadCube, visit http://www.readcube.com | or follow us on twitter: @readcube
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