Announcing Video Bytes, Research Square’s new multimedia product
ab1630's bookmarks 2018-01-13
Summary:
"Video content is a powerful and growing medium, with one billion hours of video watched each day on YouTube alone. Research Square’s video offerings provide a way for new research discoveries to reach a broad audience in an engaging multimedia format.
In 2015, Research Square launched the production of Video Abstracts in a trial with Nature Publishing Group. Since then, over 400 Video Abstracts (2- to 3-minute videos with custom animation describing published research) have been produced for authors, scholarly societies, and publishing partners. Video Abstracts have proved to have a positive effect on downloads and views of published papers that they accompany, but a Video Abstract is not right for every occasion, particularly when brevity and broad reach are most critical. Enter Research Square’s latest product, the Video Byte...."