This platform is more than a preprints repository and will support collaboration, interdisciplinary research and the evolution of open research and scholarly communications. We will bring our expertise as both a publisher and a technology developer to benefit the researcher and end user. We believe that as a trusted non-commercial entity with experience in content dissemination, curation, and hosting, we can offer a technology service with a high-quality user experience. The platform will be developed continuously over time, using an agile approach to respond to the priorities of our users, and, through a method called co-creation, we're inviting researchers and other stakeholders to actively input and help us shape the roadmap.

Benefits for researchers:

• Find and collaborate with peers
• Discover early and non-traditional open access content
• Extend the collaborative benefits of conferences through to publication

Benefits for authors:

• Rapidly disseminate pre-publication research
• Develop and discuss research with peers
• Build an audience before formal publication
• Get analytics on engagement with and impact of early research outputs

Benefits for partners:

• Gain insight into trends and growth areas within areas of research focus
• Add value proposition for members/faculty
• Get analytics across a range of early and open research outputs within their organization