 I'm Tony O'Rourke, a consultant for Strategic Alliances within Argo and I'm here today with Charlie Rappel, who's co-founder as well as sales and marketing director of Kudos. Kudos is a web-based service that helps researchers and institutions and funders to maximise the visibility and impact of their published articles and research. Kudos provides a platform for assembling and creating information to help search filtering, for sharing information to drive discovery and for measuring and monitoring the effects of these activities. In today's interview we'll be discussing the need for services like Kudos, as well as their impact for both early stage researchers as well as experience researchers in countries such as Japan, Korea and China. Can you share the initial idea behind Kudos? Yeah, there were a number of different themes that seemed to come together at the time when we set up Kudos. My co-founders and I had all been working in the scholarly communications industry and tackling a lot of the same issues, much more research being published and the challenges for researchers themselves in making sure that their works were finding an audience, but also as readers trying to digest growing amounts of literature and keep up with the important developments in your space. So Charlie can you give me some examples of where Kudos has made a difference? Yeah absolutely, so in addition to the study that I mentioned that shows on an aggregate level people are people's use of Kudos is correlated to 23% higher downloads, we get some fabulous stories of actually what that's meant for individuals. But researchers themselves are often reluctant or reticent to use or to adopt these new platforms and trends. What's Kudos doing to come to the rescue these researchers? Taking out a lot of the noise, taking out a lot of the effort involved and creating a really simple workflow so that people could quickly in five minutes explain their work, get them the trackable link for sharing it and then come back only hours later and see the results that they've achieved and all the mechanisms we've wrapped around that in terms of emailing them and encouraging them to be able to see that. I think that's what's made it work for us and that's the way in which we're different to a lot of the other systems that people are being asked to use which don't have such a clear benefit for researchers or even if there is a clear benefit they haven't been able to demonstrate it so demonstrably that's been a focus from us from the outset and I think that's why so many people have adopted the service that we've created. Well thank you to the Inargo Academy for asking me some questions today about Kudos. I've really enjoyed thinking through some of the aspects of what we've discussed and I really hope that we can soon help a lot of the researchers and authors who are in Japan, South Korea, China and many of the other countries who are seeking to increase the impact of your work.