Watch the RIO Video
All outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles together on a single collaborative platform. Watch a short...
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All you can publish: go à la carte with Research Ideas and Outcomes Journal...
Science is Awesome! This is something we truly believe in at Pensoft. But, like everything in this world, science needs funding to sustain itself. Out there, some great minds are turning countless...
View ArticleOpening-up the early stages of research – LSE blog about RIO
Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO) is now featured on the LSE Blog and here is what we shared with them. Few like to admit it, but the traditional process of research is immensely wasteful....
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Counting days and tweets: What’s happened to RIO Journal so far?
So, here we are, counting days and Twitter impressions since Research Ideas & Outcomes (or, RIO for short) our new open access journal was officially announced on 1st September 2015. As much as we...
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Peer Review at RIO: Part 1
In this post we shall explain our much anticipated use of pre-submission peer-review. This is not the only model of peer-review we will operate. Next week we will explain our post-publication...
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Peer Review at RIO: Part 2
Having explained our pre-submission peer-review last week, in this post we’re going to explain our post-publication peer-review. Why use open post-publication peer-review? Removes unnecessary delay...
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RIO will emphasise the social impact of research
Most funding agencies now require researchers to specify and think about the broader, societal impacts of their proposed research. This makes a lot of sense, since approximately 80% of research is...
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Would you like some experience of basic editorial work at RIO Journal?
Warming up for its first set of research ideas, proposals, articles, software suggestions and a lot more types of scientific work to be submitted in November, RIO Journal is on the lookout for early...
View ArticleOpening-up the early stages of research – LSE blog about RIO
Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO) is now featured on the LSE Blog and here is what we shared with them. Few like to admit it, but the traditional process of research is immensely wasteful....
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Would you like some experience of basic editorial work at RIO Journal?
Warming up for its first set of research ideas, proposals, articles, software suggestions and a lot more types of scientific work to be submitted in November, RIO Journal is on the lookout for early...
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PART 1: The ARPHA Writing Tool: Adding Value to RIO
The online, collaborative ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT) is an innovative, entirely Web-based, authoring, submission, peer-review, publication & dissemination authoring platform. While flexible to...
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PART 2: The ARPHA Writing Tool: Adding Value to RIO
Last week, we presented some basic features of the ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT), focusing on the collaborative authoring process. This post will add the novelties that ARPHA has adopted when it comes to...
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RIO pricing: affordable, flexible, sustainable
Today, we are happy to announce our initial pricing scheme and launch promotions. Many people have asked us what we are going to charge for our novel services – we welcome such questions. In an age...
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RIO @ OpenCon
OpenCon 2015 brought together students and early career academic professionals alongside the most passionate advocates for Open Science to talk about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data… and...
View ArticleAustrian Science Fund grant proposal goes public with RIO Journal
Controlled manipulation of matter on the scale of atoms is the topic of a new cutting edge Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project “Heteroatom quantum corrals and nanoplasmonics in graphene” (HeQuCoG), led...
View ArticleNew proposal published in RIO tackles problematic trial detection in...
Clinical trials are crucial in determining the effectiveness of treatments and directly influence practical and policy decisions. However, their results could be even detrimental to real-life patients...
View ArticleAn Open Science plan: Wikidata for Research
Wikidata is to databases what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias – the free version that anyone can edit. Both aim to share “the sum of all human knowledge” across the world in a multitude of languages, and...
View ArticleNew DFG grant proposal for a software quality control able to stand the test...
For a software to be maintained in an optimal condition, as well as in track of any necessary updates and innovations, it needs to be kept in check constantly. This appears to be the only way for any...
View ArticleMental synthesis experiment could teach us more about our imagination
While there is general consensus that the ability to imagine a never-before-seen object or concept is a unique and distinctive human trait, there is little that we know about the neurological mechanism...
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PhD Project Plan published to invite community feedback early on
Development and implementation of novel methods for publication, visualisation and dissemination of the constantly growing biodiversity and genomic bioinformatic data are the main objective of the...
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