<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">[With apologies for cross-posting]</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hi everyone,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">eLife is pleased to announce that we, in collaboration with Vincent Tunru from Flockademic and the Center for Open Science (COS), are supporting the development of Plaudit – a mechanism for academics to share their research recommendations openly with readers.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Stemming from a concept refined at the eLife Innovation Sprint 2018, Plaudit aims to provide an easy way to recognise the value of scholarly content, regardless of where it is published. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Giuliano Maciocci, our Head of Product, says: “Plaudit is an opportunity to add a lightweight, authoritative and transparent layer of feedback to any research object, and has the potential to serve as a complement to other styles of both formal and informal review."</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">You can find out more about the project in our full announcement:<span> </span><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felifesciences.org%2Ffor-the-press%2F0cf0e963%2Felife-backs-plaudit-for-open-sharing-of-research-recommendations&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C7f7914d4f5df4bf9641d08d63f363ac0%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=W5RUydd9BFBhy4x3UtMgBS78TOYEsqUQavlp1ffG%2F0o%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/0cf0e963/elife-backs-plaudit-for-open-sharing-of-research-recommendations" shash="UxsvLTytlGpKWPBJ97T02422c6j+bBY2ns/uErA/bP74HPEag9h51tnDfDZEHADzf/cQUzDHGVBZSabWJpGX7dmvXjhC3n40Fl6HSI3Er36n/d5etHJP4Ga0WvTiqIoPp4RdcDnrnzI6txKQ+14XGLWzMJlRxLKdqfH66+dBhgs=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://elifesciences.org/for-<wbr>the-press/0cf0e963/elife-<wbr>backs-plaudit-for-open-<wbr>sharing-of-research-<wbr>recommendations</a>.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">For further details, please don't hesitate to contact me.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">With best wishes,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Emily</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><img src="http://cdn.elifesciences.org/images/elife_final_logo_rgb.jpg" width="96" height="39" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Emily Packer<br>Senior Press Officer</p><p>+44 1223 855373 (office)</p><p><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Felifesciences.org%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C7f7914d4f5df4bf9641d08d63f363ac0%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=OzSFsF4cPq%2BYuXrDxFO%2FH5BJXSaAUBBrwTd2fgKLhOA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://elifesciences.org/" shash="UkC9yvXLE88Ejb05DKXcZu66Lbz5aQVHGML04W6e/QcsZ4PAOJxMhsUZ3PKCEFxyZGQWPiTprAZ3IKP5oxn1oAiKx0ZcOTg2GZsjUZdFVfsdZeTAIduPvTaxj9MZx2wJRbOvU067ussuSqg3gmkoe9Dd3AT51y1bR8bFTNYqUBU=" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://elifesciences.org</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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