SciVee PubCast is an innovative video abstract of peer-review articles. It enables a viewer to watch the author talk about the paper and read the highlighted text or figures to get the full context of the content quickly in an engaging way. It is thus a much more dynamic way to absorb new research that promotes the researchers' work and increases their recognition through broader distribution. Most importantly, PubCast delivers to journals and publishers higher traffic, higher article views and downloads, and new service and monetization options.

Higher article views

PubCasts are designed to attract greater interest in an article and subsequent traffic. While the traffic curve of any individual or group of articles may vary in the details, the general shape is similar over time. In one test conducted in 2008,

PubCasts have proven to increase article views
and downloads by 75% over time.

Applications

PubCasts are primarily used as the video abstract to highlight and entice the viewing and downloading of current issue articles. They can also be used as a marketing tool pre-publication or a collection post-publication. In sum, PubCasts can be used in any part of a publisher’s production workflow.