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Jun 02 2021

Tips to ensure plain language summaries are discovered and read

It’s all well and good producing a plan language summary of an article, making the research easy to understand for a lay audience, but how do you ensure these readers discover and actually read the PLS? In their latest post “Don’t Just Produce Plain Language Summaries: Seven Tips to Get Them Read”, Deborah Wyatt and Marisha Fonseca of Impact Science at Cactus Communications share their thoughts on how to make PLS discoverable and drive readership. With suggestions including where to publish the PLS, format and how to maximize SEO, they present some useful tips to maximize the accessibilty and discoverability of these articles.

Read the post in full here.

If societies, publishers and researchers 
want to truly engage with the public and disseminate their research, then plain-language summaries must be easy to find.

Deborah Wyatt
VP, Global Academic & Society Relations – Impact Science at Cactus Communications
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