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Welcome to the latest edition of The Download, the Digital Science newsletter for the publishing community. We’re delighted to share our latest updates with you. 

New Altmetric dashboard built for publishers 

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Altmetric's Journal Benchmark dashboard, designed to help publishers share success with stakeholders, benchmark journal performance against competitors, and track the real-world impact of publications using a blend of Altmetric and Dimensions data. To celebrate the launch, we kicked off a 'How to' Altmetric for Publishers webinar series. The first webinar introduced the new dashboard, while upcoming sessions will showcase how the Altmetric Explorer can be utilized by your editorial, sales, and marketing teams.

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PID stop

What’s a PID? Many of us in the publishing world think we know what a PID is, but wouldn’t like to have to answer a test on it. Luckily, we grabbed expert Alice Meadows to help us understand the more about the possibilities of persistent identifiers. In her video interview ahead of the first ever #PIDfest in Prague, the Co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative talks about PIDs in the context of research infrastructure, why metadata matters, and building research solutions for communities.

Watch the video

Give your authors a boost

A recent article in Nature offered authors 12 scientifically-backed tips on how to overcome writing difficulties. At Digital Science, we do our bit to help publishers to in turn help authors to optimize their work:

• Writefull helps authors to speed up the writing and language editing process and reduces the language barrier to publication 
• Overleaf provides your authors with a simple 1-click submission, directly into submission systems
• Figshare helps authors to navigate the complexities of compliance with a repository infrastructure and a seamless process for making their research data available
• Altmetric enables authors to see how their research is being shared and discussed online

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Out and about

We were delighted to see friends and customers at the Society of Scholarly Publishers conference last month. It was a busy week in Boston, with great talks and lots of activity in and around the Digital Science booth. We were thrilled to launch Altmetric’s new Journal Benchmark Dashboard at the conference, and it was standing room only at our Writefull industry breakout session. Here’s the publisher team representing our flagship solutions for academic publishers.

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Best wishes,

The Digital Science Publisher Team