London, 20 June 2023 – Enago Charlesworth has secured a strategic partnership with SocoPay, a payment gateway processing platform operated by the China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation Ltd (CEPIEC). The partnership will support Enago Charlesworth’s partner publishers to offer a simplified, local payment option to their Chinese customers.
The CEPIEC platform enables researchers to pay locally in China for the collaborated publishers’ APCs and research tools through the preferred Chinese online payment methods, AliPay and WeChat Pay, and receive a local fapiao invoice.
Scite Sales in China
Currently, Enago Charlesworth is using SocoPay to manage the B2C sales processing of Scite’s research tools in China. This collaboration allows Chinese researchers to access and purchase Scite’s cutting-edge research tools while expanding their global reach. Researchers can purchase Scite via the cwauthors.com.cn platform with payment processing through SocoPay.
“We are thrilled to announce a deeper partnership with Enago Charlesworth. Scite has experienced explosive growth in individual subscriptions but has always faced challenges in certain regions, such as China. With this partnership, we can ensure a seamless payment processing solution for researchers and students in China” said Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of Scite.
“Charlesworth is excited to be an official partner of CEPIEC. The integration of SocoPay provides an excellent solution for payment processing for publishers in China, helping to improve the publisher-author relationship, as well as making it easier for researchers to purchase tools such as Scite,” said Andrew Smith, Product & Marketing Director at Charlesworth Group.
SocoPay Service
CEPIEC’s SocoPay also offers seamless payment process for APCs. Through this partnership, Enago Charlesworth can offer the APC processing solution to publishers, helping them provide an improved author experience in China through local payment and invoicing. The solution can be fully integrated into a publisher’s workflow with support and consultation provided by Enago Charlesworth.
“CEPIEC is delighted to work with Charlesworth, to provide a reliable and secure payment solution to publishers in China. This partnership will also help to promote the availability and accessibility of research tools within China,” said Jianfeng Zheng, Deputy Director of Digital Department. from CEPIEC.
Enago Charlesworth’s partnership with SocoPay is a significant step towards expanding the availability and accessibility of research tools within China. With Charlesworth’s extensive expertise in publishing services and SocoPay’s reliable payment processing solutions, this collaboration helps to streamline the B2C sales process, and enhance research capabilities and the processing of APCs within China.
About Enago Charlesworth
Enago Charlesworth is a market-leading, global publishing solutions company. Our global presence in nine countries, including primary offices in the UK, China, Japan, South Korea, India and the US provides STM publishers and authors with localised and innovative tools and services to help them achieve their goals.
The joint capabilities of Enago Charlesworth allow global publishers and researchers to access Enago’s portfolio of AI-driven language solutions, including Trinka, Raxter and AuthorOne, as well as Charlesworth’s comprehensive range of author services and China focused sales and marketing expertise. As an official CEPIEC partner, we provide a seamless service option for publishers to sell their products and services in China and internationally.
For more information visit: https://www.enago.com/publishers
About Scite
Scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Scite is used by student researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
Contact: hi@scite.ai
About CEPIEC
Founded in 1987, CEPIEC is a state-owned publications importer and exporter, part of the China Education Publishing & Media Group Ltd. CEPIEC remains committed to education and academic research. CEPIEC is mainly engaged in the import and export of books, periodicals and digital resources. As well as our main business, we have developed a copyright business, engaged in international book fairs, and initiated the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF). In response to the digital era, CEPIEC advanced a program focused on digital products, developing digital resource platforms such as iResearch, iText, Socolar as well as SocoPay, providing Chinese authors and users with diversified and distinctive academic services. CEPIEC actively participates in the globalisation of Chinese culture. The company is focused on being a high-quality exporter, holding the copyrights to The Three-Body Trilogy, which has received huge international success. CEPIEC has been recognised by China’s cultural authorities as a “key enterprise” cultural exporter and a model enterprise for globalisation. For our efforts in globalisation, CEPIEC has become the home-base to exporting classic genre literature from China.
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