Listed below is a selection of key services. All services are either free to contributors, (because they are either free for everyone or have any fees covered by the ESC and our publishers), or, are deeply discounted as ESC Professional, Professional Plus and FESC benefits. Inclusion does not imply endorsement and the list is not exhaustive.
Discounted services for ESC Professional, Professional Plus and FESC members
ESC Professional, Professional Plus and FESC members can now access 30% discounts on research output editing services.
Valuable authoring services go from high-quality English language checking to advanced editing that focuses on your manuscript's logic, structure and presentation. See the Enago web site's ESC collaboration pages for detailed information.
ESC Professional Members, ESC professional Plus Members and FESC:
Access your discount easily through the My Benefits section of your My ESC account.
Under the Discounts sub-section you will see a link to Enago Author Services along with the discount code to enter when ordering.
Free services for all
Kudos provides a toolkit for increasing usage and impact of published research. You can use Kudos to explain your work in plain language and to manage and measure your efforts to share it (by email, social media, academic networks and more). They are the only service that enables you to manage in one place all your publications (regardless of where they are published), all your communications (regardless of which tools or networks you use) and all your metrics (from “likes” and clicks to downloads and citations). The European Society of Cardiology and our publishers support this service, so it is free for you to use.
Register for free at www.growkudos.com
ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. They provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. They provide this service to help people find information and to simplify reporting and analysis.
Register for free at www.orcid.org
Thousands of conversations about scholarly content happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping you to monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work you care about.
Discover more at www.altmetric.com
Publons is harnessing the power of peer review to speed up research. By working with publishers, research institutions and researchers, Publons provides a free service for academics to track, verify and make use of their peer review contributions to research. Publons also provides peer review training and resources, connects reviewers with editors and provides a platform for post-publication review of the world’s research.
Register for free at www.publons.com
Current ESC Publishers
The publishers publishing ESC owned journals include Oxford University Press, SAGE Journals and Wiley. EuroIntervention (an ESC Journal Family member) is owned and published by the Europa Organisation. Information on the publishers of ESC owned journals and value adding services described below can be viewed in this special timeline presentation prepared for the ESC Congress 2017:
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