ChemRxiv, Cambridge Open Engage collaborate in 2021

American Chemical Society Chemistry for Life’s ChemRxiv, a preprint server for chemical services, reported that Cambridge’s Open Engage platform will be hosting their server starting in April 2021.

ChemRxiv authors will experience better usability and can submit their preprints from the ChemRxiv site to journals by ACS, Chinese Chemical Society, Chemical Society of Japan, German Chemical Society (GDCh) and Royal Society of Chemistry.

“ChemRxiv is an integral component of the partner societies’ commitment to the open science movement, and this change will provide our authors with a better experience,” Sarah Tegen, Ph.D., senior vice president, ACS Publications Division, said. “We are dedicated to continually enhancing ChemRxiv to strengthen its value to the chemistry community.”

Cambridge Open Engage is excited to be working alongside ChemRxiv.

This new partnership will not only help ChemRxiv to accelerate the movement toward open research but will provide crucial services through Cambridge Open Engage to meet the needs of the global chemistry community,” Brigitte Shull, director of scholarly communications research and development at Cambridge University Press, said. “We launched Cambridge Open Engage because we want to support researcher collaboration and aid discovery of early and non-traditional research.” 

The authors who use ChemRxiv will also have the opportunity to work with over 200 volunteer academics who are on an online panel with Cambridge Open Engage. 

“In the years since it began, ChemRxiv has become an essential tool for chemists around the world and plays an important role in advancing open science,” Zhigang Shuai, Ph.D., vice president of the Chinese Chemical Society and 2021 chair of the ChemRxiv governing board, said. “I’m proud of this latest advancement that will allow ChemRxiv to continue to best serve the scientific community.”

Both groups look forward to the partnership and what their collaboration will bring in the future.