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Luxembourg 16 September 2013

MyScienceWork - international ambitions of a unique socialscientific network - Fundamental changes for scientific

publishing on their way with Open Access

MyScienceWork the start-up featuring a unique Open Access social networkfor researchers with offices in Luxembourg and Paris, is confident to createthe world biggest scientific database thus providing enhanced accessibilityto scientists worldwide.

Through its centralized multidisciplinary communication platform, MyScienceWork provides

open access to scientific data: new publications of researches, expert profiles, job offers and

scientific conferences and events. By the end of the year, the company is targeting to reach

100.000 subscribers to its social network. Within the last three months 15.000 scientists

signed up to the MyScienceWork platform which provides access to 23 million documents

published in 39 languages. The social network is based on the Open Access concept,

providing researchers and the general public free access to scientific knowledge.

Mrs Virginie Simon, CEO and co-founder of MyScienceWork, who holds a PhD in

nanotechnologies against cancer, enthuses: « scientific social networks have been proven in

the United States and have attracted the attention of important investors to platforms which

still are restricted to featuring scientific data for selected disciplines only. MyScienceWork

aims to become the biggest database for scientific publications worldwide by providing

multidisciplinary content in different languages targeting researchers as well as the general

public”.

Tristan Davaille, CSO and co-founder, adds: “The Luxembourg Government, as well as a

Luxembourgish investment fund with international activities, already invested 1.5 million

USD in MyScienceWork for our launch in Europe. We feel confident that our business model

will meet the international approval and interest of researchers but mostly potential

investors paving the way for our international development. In autumn we will further

expand to Europe and the US ».

Ongoing technical development and public access to knowledge

MyScienceWork is dedicated to continuously develop its technologies in order to provide

enhanced services to professionals searching for accurate scientific findings. The MSW

search engine includes web semantics allowing searches by keywords and providing

scientific language comprehension. As a result of the continuous development of its online

platform, MyScienceWork was able to open up scientific knowledge to the general public. In

its “News” vulgarization section, expert journalists publish articles on scientific news,

researchers’ profiles, and documents dedicated to open access and science 2.0.

Fundamental changes to scientific editing on their way

MyScienceWork’s success is a consequence of the growing need for liberalisation of the

scientific information access and mainly of the free access of researchers to the publications

of their peers. According to academic experts, the volume of scientific articles read or

quotes used is multiplied by 30 when published on an Open Access platform. Ten years ago

researchers were not only forced to pay for the publication of their findings, but institutions

and universities were also compelled to invest high sums in scientific expert magazines and

papers. Today and with the development of scientific social networks based on Open Access,

trends to a liberalisation of scientific knowledge are fundamentally changing the editing

market.

In 2012 four winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize (John Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka, Brian

Kobilka and Serge Haroche) chose to publish their research only in Open Access thus

providing Open Access its well-deserved excellence. An increasing number of universities

and institutions in Europe and the world amongst which MIT and Harvard University, are

supporting platforms and networks based on Open Access, forcing researchers to openly file

articles, publications and bibliographic references, allowing them to increase their impact,

visibility and the accessibility to their work. In February 2013, the White House announced

its adaptation of a policy that would see nearly all of the science papers produced through

federal funding made accessible to the public within a year of their publication. Today, the

European Commission as well as European governments are looking into providing legal

frameworks and recommendations for copyrights and free access to scientific publications.

From 21st to 27th October, MyScienceWork will actively participate in the world « Open

Access Week », offering conferences in cooperation with renowned European universities.

About MyScienceWork

MyScienceWork (www.mysciencework.com) is a professional social network dedicated to

open access created in 2010 by a team of two young academics teaming up their

complementary knowledge and experience. PhD Virginie Simon, who specialized in

nanotechnologies against cancer, and Tristan Davaille, expert in finance and economy.

Dedicated to the scouting of researchers, MyScienceWork’s objective is to spread the

scientific culture and to accelerate the research development. MSW today employs 15

experts working in its offices in Paris and Luxembourg. MyScienceWork is established in

Luxembourg and received funds by the Luxembourg Government as well as a Luxembourg-

based investment fund. Social network: www.mysciencework.com; scientific media:

www.mysciencework.com/en/mysciencenews.

For further information, please contact:

Virginie Simon

CEO and co-founder, MyScienceWork

M : +352 621 294 756

virginie.simon@mysciencwork.com