Slides from Kudos' rapid-fire presentation at the New England Publishing Collaboration Awards; Kudos was the winner of the Audience Choice award! Our submission explores how, in an era of information overload, new communications media and rigorous measurement of research impact, researchers are evaluating their publishing choices to consider which publishers will most assist them in ensuring their work is found, read and applied. This both heightens the competition for the best authors, but also creates opportunities for collaboration; the shared Kudos service helps individual publishers increase support for authors, while compiling an aggregated data set from which wider intelligence can be derived about which marketing messages and channels are most effective for increasing readership. By acting as a nexus for collaboration between publishers, Kudos helps align their efforts in pursuit of shared goals around increasing readership and broadening impact.

1. helping publications
get found and read
researchers  universities  publishers  funders

2. Rise of
metrics
New ways of
communicating
Proliferation of
publications
INTRODUCTION
Compete?
Or
COLLABORATE?

3. RESULTS
Emerald - full-text downloads tripled
when authors used Kudos
EXPLAIN SHARE MEASUR
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70,000
researchers

4. DEPTH OF COLLABORATION
STRATEGIC
FOUNDATIONS
DEVELOPMENT
PARTICIPATION
AMPLIFICATION
Full collaboration
every step
of the way
pilot partners3
beta partners20
current partners50

5. SIGNIFICANCE TO INDUSTRY
Working WITH rather than
AGAINST current “system”
A nexus for collaboration –
aligning publishers’ efforts in
pursuit of shared goals

6. CONCLUSION
vision
to use metrics
to motivate authors
to increase readership
of works across all genres