From: Laura Brant <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 02:15:05 -0800 Dear Colleague I would like to share with you some exciting news regarding the latest development on the cross-publisher collaborative reading platform, PaperHive, that enables private group conversations within research papers and books. I hope that this announcement will be of interest to you and your readers. It has today been announced that PaperHive has launched ‘Channels’. ‘Channels’ transforms dispersed conversations about academic texts into documented, structured private conversations that enable further collaborative communication in research and education. The latest development has been welcomed by the publishing industry and education sector users. More information can be found in the press release below. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Alex Naydenov at PaperHive ([log in to unmask]) if you need any more information. 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The latest development, *Channels,* allows private group conversations on any document on PaperHive; bookmarking for organising relevant published documents for the channel; and provides notifications and activity feeds for recent discussions and bookmarks within the channel. *Channels *can also be used by individual users as a private channel to store and annotate relevant texts to be cited later in their research theses, articles or as part of seminar/lecture preparation. As a mathematics researcher, Co-founder Dr. André Gaul, had always wanted to be able to have private conversations with his colleagues at TU Berlin within academic texts. After receiving similar feedback from early PaperHive adopters around the world (professors at universities who wanted to use PaperHive while teaching and young researchers who have international networks of collaborators), *Channels* were developed and launched. Dr. André Gaul, co-founder of PaperHive, says “Research groups and collaborators are now able to conveniently, and privately, exchange new ideas around documents they are reading for advancing their own research work. Likewise, educators can use *Channels* to engage with students, spark discussions, set tasks and delve deeper into texts *with* their students.” Educators and students can use* Channels* as an e-learning tool for both traditional and distance learning (e.g. MOOCs). *Channels* enable increased engagement with teaching content in seminars and lectures, better and faster understanding and more interaction for students with their fellow students. *Channels* are already receiving praise from higher education users, Prof. Dr. Jörg Liesen, Principal of the Numerical Linear Algebra Department at TU Berlin said “Private channels are a great tool for working with textbooks in lectures or seminars, and a way to encourage students to actively engage with suggested readings.” Both new users and researchers who already use PaperHive are now able to have private communications with invited colleagues on all published articles on PaperHive. Those in the research group will save time through structured collaboration and note taking, as they are able to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas and opinions, easily share references and suggest related articles. PaperHive is a cross-publisher research platform enabling in-document discussions of academic texts. It has transformed reading from an isolated activity into a process of active collaboration, helping researchers and students to communicate. Users are able to attach questions, corrections, formulas, figures, further literature, code, or data directly to the original text, allowing experts to benefit from each other's insights. PaperHive is continuously extending the content that can be read and discussed on its platform by integrating with publishers and pre-print repositories. ENDS ________________________________________________________________________ *Media Contact * Alexander Naydenov [log in to unmask] *About PaperHive* PaperHive is a coworking hub for researchers that allows for collaborative reading and seamless discussions of research papers directly in the browser. Researchers are able to attach questions, corrections, formulas, figures, further literature, code, or data directly to the original text where everyone can benefit from it. The Berlin-based start-up is committed to simplifying research communication and transforming reading into a process of collaboration. For more information, please visit paperhive.org <http://tbicommunications.dmanalytics2.com/click?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpaperhive.org%2F&i=4&d=ArkWh4lBSxCPGV0smiAv1g&e=liblicense-l%40listserv.crl.edu&a=IDP4hvCESXilTUkDbeX4FQ>