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Summary:

“' ... Students engrossed in the field of research need to refer a lot of journals and research papers for their thesis. Even I had to subscribe to the whole journal to get access to one or two articles. Journals often cost in the range of $30 – $50 and students don’t have that kind of money,' says Nadeera on the cause for starting RYP. Neeraj and Nadeera decided together to start something that would make lives easier for these youngsters. RYP consolidates articles from all open access journals and papers available online. However, RYP’s efforts got a shot in the arm when they managed to get access to digital libraries of Niigata University Library, Japan and Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka and some Ivy League universities. 'Such imperative quality content is now available to the researchers for free. Some journals and papers at universities are not open for public access, however with RYP, we have made it possible,' say the duo proudly. Neeraj claims to have 1.1 million research articles in their repository on various subjects and this he says is growing at the rate of around 1000 articles per day. A consolidated list of articles is shown to the user when he types the topic on the search bar. The articles are ranked as per latest first policy, the latest and new entrant on a topic will be ranked first. RYP has segregated all research articles according to topics, so the user does not have to subscribe to the journal. The team has also taken sufficient care to see that copyright violations do not play spoil sport in their effort to make research mainstream. The articles on the site are available in four different languages – English, Spanish, Chinese and French. 'We saw that journals of international repute charge for publishing an article. A lot of savant students stay bereft of having a paper on their name because of huge fees. A alternative to this, is to publish their article with us where peers can review the article and rate their article. And if the article is of good standards, we’ll publish it on our website,' says Neeraj. 'Our revenue model is hybrid. It comes from authors paying for premium services, readers paying for download and universities paying subscriptions. RYP charges 3 USD per download for the articles exclusively published on RYP’s site,'  says Nadeera about their revenue streams. They have a permanent office in Gurgaon. The startup has managed to secure funding of USD 40,000 through Startup Chile program. They have also been recognized in ‘Among 10 unstoppable startups in Bangalore Startup Festival March 2013’ and have been invited to present themselves at SXSW Festival, Austin, March 2013."

Link:

http://yourstory.in/2013/07/four-individuals-from-india-sri-lanka-and-chile-collaborate-to-build-a-platform-for-research-papers/

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Date tagged:

07/09/2013, 09:17

Date published:

07/09/2013, 05:17