Research communication comes in many forms — traditional text based publishing cannot accommodate to all the needs of new, non text-based forms of communication. Audio-articles, also called pubcasts, are one such form. We’re happy to announce ResearchEquals is partnering with PubCasts to stimulate,  develop, and support the publication of audio-articles in our community.

In this blog, we explain what ResearchEquals Supporting Memberships are, why we are (re)introducing them, and how you can become an individual or institutional supporting member. It is clear to us that what we are doing with ResearchEquals is not a technological change, it is a social one — that means your involvement matters. What is a supporting membership? Supporting memberships are a community based approach to how ResearchEquals evolves.

Copyright is automatic: You create something and it will have copyright. This blog, just by writing it will have copyright. Even your doodles. It is the contract without paper trail. That also means: Without any intervention, nobody will be able to legally copy it. The interventions to make that copyright more workable are important in open movements. Such interventions provide the legal certainty to reuse whatever it is you are interested in.

Since 2020, twelve organizations signed on to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). It’s not a meagre list of organizations either: CrossRef, ROR, Europe PMC, and many more. Today, Liberate Science joins the POSI posse (their words) with our initial evaluation of ResearchEquals.

Creating tools isn’t the biggest challenge, the biggest challenge is getting people to use them (Brian Nosek) We want people to know about ResearchEquals, so that they can use it to publish how they know, instead of what they know. Our launch in February 2022 gave ResearchEquals a boost, and now we wanted to try out something new: We dipped our toes into the marketing waters!

We launched our own open access publishing platform ResearchEquals.com on February 1st, 2022. Publish how you know, not what you know. Our open access publishing platform for research modules.

With our publishing platform ResearchEquals.com we are introducing a new business model for open access: Pay to close. We love open access - it is a massive part of why we even started building ResearchEquals. We also hear the scholarly community's issues with the business models of open access.

This is a call for fellowship applications. Apply here. ResearchEquals is a new publishing platform for research modules, developed by Liberate Science. Instead of publishing entire projects as papers, researchers publish their process, sharing the building blocks of research continuously and in chronological order.

I am excited to announce that our publishing platform for research modules is going to be named ResearchEquals, launching on ResearchEquals.com (February 1st, 2022).Branding design by Pentagram We already announced that we are sunsetting Hypergraph after our initial experimental phase for publishing research modules, from which we learned some important lessons.