<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Franck,</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for sharing this announcement. </div><div><br></div><div>Will this endorsement feature be available on MDPI's <a href="http://preprints.org">preprints.org</a> too? Preprints are an output that could really benefit from experimentation with endorsements and other early indicators of interest or quality.</div><div><br></div><div>Is the reader prompted to provide any specific endorsement? For example, this could be a simple 'like' or a more detailed way for the reader to express 'I read this and I think it's thorough'. Please provide more detail. Please could you provide links or screenshots to show this endorsement feature in action? </div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, how is this different to Plaudit (<a href="https://plaudit.pub/">https://plaudit.pub/</a>)? This is an open source web extension that also applies an endorsement to an output with a DOI using the endorser's ORCID. It's not publisher-specific but can be used by a single reader across many platforms with scholarly outputs. <i>(Disclosure: I was involved with supporting Plaudit's developer, Vincent, at the project's earliest stages at the eLife Sprint 2018 and afterwards with eLife.)</i></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance for the extra information.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Naomi</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Naomi Penfold, PhD<div>Associate Director, ASAPbio</div><div><a href="https://asapbio.org" target="_blank">https://asapbio.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>ASAPbio is a scientist-driven nonprofit working to promote innovation and transparency in the life sciences. We are a 501(c)(3) registered in the state of California with entity number C3975544 and address: ASAPBIO c/o Phoebe Grigg, 600-16th St Ste N312E MC2200, San Francisco, CA 94143-2517. We don't actually work in San Fran though, so please find us online.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 12:00, <<a href="mailto:goal-request@eprints.org">goal-request@eprints.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send GOAL mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:23:10 +0200<br>
From: Franck Vazquez <<a href="mailto:vazquez@mdpi.com" target="_blank">vazquez@mdpi.com</a>><br>
Subject: [GOAL] MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving <br>
the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally <br>
recommend articles to their colleagues.<br>
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MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research <br>
Assessment (<a href="https://sfdora.org/read/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfdora.org/read/</a>) which calls for improvement in how <br>
quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated, <br>
especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal <br>
Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).<br>
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MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics, <br>
including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These <br>
measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a <br>
case?by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these <br>
metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article <br>
impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic <br>
scientific value of the article.<br>
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In our view, community engagement with publications based on <br>
community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have <br>
therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles, <br>
indicating their own assessment of its content and making a <br>
recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of <br>
the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for <br>
all articles published by MDPI for over a year <br>
(<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397</a>). Both endorsement and <br>
commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming <br>
MDPI articles.<br>
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In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article <br>
assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify <br>
the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was <br>
published.<br>
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The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and <br>
ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.<br>
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder<br>
Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer<br>
Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director<br>
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