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**New York City, NY, March 1, 2022**  – Underline Science (underline.io), the premier virtual conference venue and digital video library for events and content in science, medicine, academia and other professional fields, has signed an agreement with Accucoms the leading provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers worldwide to represent the Underline Digital Video Library to institutions in the UK, Scandinavia, Israel, and Central & Eastern Europe.

We are delighted to have Accucoms represent Underline to academic institutions to sell our Underline Digital Video Library (DVL). The Underline DVL has 20,000+ scientific conference lectures with new videos added weekly, says Alex Lazinica, CEO, Underline Science, Inc. “The content from scientific conferences, presentations, and technical meetings is critical for scientists and the medical community to learn about the latest breakthroughs and research. At Underline, we are working to accelerate discovery by expanding access and making these scholarly lectures available to all who need them.”

“Video content is increasing in demand so we are delighted to be able to bring the Underline Digital Video Library to our library customers in the UK, Scandinavia, Central & Eastern Europe, and Israel. The Underline platform has always impressed me, and the videos are professionally published with transcripts and a DOI allowing for referencing, citations, and sharing. Accucoms specializes in bringing exciting new products such as Underline to market, and we look forward to helping it grow.” Simon Boisseau, Managing Director, Accucoms

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About Underline Science 
Underline is the premier virtual conference platform for events in science, medicine, academia and other professional fields. Underline’s mission is to capture and disseminate scientific knowledge through video, making it globally accessible by enriching and preserving both virtual and hybrid conference content. Underline’s groundbreaking scientific Digital Video Library is providing new opportunities to access and expand the scientific record and accelerate scientific discovery. For more information, visit the Underline website and follow Underline on Twitter. 
 
About Accucoms
Accucoms is the leading provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers worldwide. We have extensive expertise in global representation for clients ranging from large publishing houses to specialist society publishers. We work on behalf of publishers to help boost their sales, expand their readership and increase customer retention and engagement in the markets that are important to them. Visit their site at https://www.accucoms.com/about-accucoms/
 


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ACCUCOMS TO REPRESENT  UNDERLINE’S DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY 

UNDERLINE SCIENCE PARTNERS WITH ACCUCOMS

Striving to lead the way on accessibility, Underline Science recently enhanced its website in order to achieve full WCAG and ADA compliance. These new features promote equitable access for the vision- and hearing-impaired and persons with photosensitive epilepsy and ADHD, among other disabilities impacting website user experience.

Libraries are the cornerstone of information access and educational material. As such equitable access to digital content should no longer be negotiable—but an ethical priority.

As a provider of public digital content to the university library community, Underline Science aims to promote the fullest use of its resources to the greatest number of people. The new website integrates AI technology to reduce common barriers that might otherwise hinder access to videos and library content for people with disabilities and impairments. This provides every visitor, student, faculty, staff member, and researcher equal access to a database filled with scholarly conference presentations.

Governments around the world have recently taken steps to center digital content accessibility for people of all abilities. Laws such as the 2019 Accessible Canada Act, EU Web Accessibility Directive, and European Accessibility Act strive to create an internet free of barriers.

The Underline site is now in full compliance with a range of recent American and Canadian accessibility guidelines, including WCAG and ADA guideline adherence. Users can configure the new Accessibility widget to meet their personal needs, clicking on the blue icon at the middle-left corner of their page.

Some of the measures readers can activate include:
•	Seizure-safe profiles with reduced color and flashing images
•	Vision-impaired profiles with ARIA best behavioral adjustments, enhanced visuals, and text size adjustability
•	ADHD-friendly profiles with fewer distractions and a highly focused layout
•	Cognitive disability profiles with assisted reading and a streamlined layouts
•	Optimized keyboard navigation for motor-impaired users
•	Content highlighting, to emphasize selected elements only
•	Audio muting
•	Printing mode
•	A search engine linked to Wiktionary and Wikipedia, so users with cognitive differences can easily grasp the meanings of phrases, slang, and complex terms

These are just a handful of the ways in which users can configure content to meet their precise needs. By putting these users in the driver’s seat of their own research experience, Underline democratizes the research experience like never before.

“University library patrons—faculty, students, researchers, and others—are a microcosm of the larger society; a society that includes between 10% and 20% of people with disabilities,” points out David Parker, Director of Product Management at Underline Science. 

“Our website and our product must serve 100% of our community. It’s a good social practice and it’s good business,” he adds.

Centering accessibility is also an ongoing process. As such, the site will continue to change and develop to stay at the forefront of meeting compliance regulations and users’ needs.

Underline Science is leading the way in academic research capabilities. Grow your scientific network and tap into the global ecosystem to help solve some of the most pressing research challenges of our time. Join the community today.

www.underline.io 

The Underline platform includes an accessibility widget to allow a more inclusive user experience.

Underline Furthers Inclusion With Website Accessibility Update

Striving to lead the way in curating and aggregating the conference presentations from leading scientific conferences, Underline Science is pleased to announce the launch of our streaming video and poster presentation platform for institutional access: https://underline.io/library

Libraries are the cornerstone of information access and research material. As such delivering the Underline Science conference video collection for unlimited, institutional use is central to the Underline Science mission. 

The Underline Science Library offers a truly academic viewing experience; this is no YouTube! Each conference presentation features searchable transcripts, citation tools, linked DOIs, abstracts, linked proceeding papers and posters, and a forum for ongoing discussion and collaboration between presenters and fellow researchers.

And the Underline site is now in full compliance with a range of recent American and Canadian accessibility guidelines, including WCAG and ADA guideline adherence. 

With more than 25,000 presentations in the streaming product, our partners include The American Institute of Physics, Peking University, Wiley, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and many more. It is important to note the Underline Science collection includes public access, open access, and premium content to honor the access aims and mandates of our scholarly publishing partners.

Streaming video platforms in the academic, public library, and corporate research market have typically focused on delivering content ranging from documentary film, to lectures, to visualized experiments, and short, instructional or informational content. Until now, no platform has sought to curate and aggregate presentations from scientific conferences around the globe.

“It is impossible for a researcher to attend every mission-critical conference,” noted David Parker, head of product for Underline Science. “And even if they could, accessing those critical conference presentations days, weeks, or months later has never been an option. At Underline Science we are filling an important gap in the scholarly communication information access landscape.”

Underline Science is leading the way in enhancing and supporting academic research access. By growing the scope of the scientific network and tapping into the global ecosystem of scientific conference presentations, Underline Science is supporting the search for information to support inquiry into some of the most pressing research challenges of our time. Join the community today.

www.underline.io

Underline Science Announces the Launch of the World’s First Aggregation of Scientific Conference Presentations

### Underline Science Closes Pre-Series A Funding Round to Enhance Virtual and Hybrid Conference Support with the Launch of the Digital Video Library
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### Alex Lazinica, founder of IntechOpen, the world’s leading publisher of open access (OA) books, is expanding the boundaries of access to scientific content through streaming video


**New York City, NY, May 17, 2022 –** Scientific research, publication, discovery, and dissemination has been slow to embrace streaming video as a critical advance as a form of scholarly communication. Alex Lazinica, founder of Underline Science, a leading provider of platform and technology support for virtual and hybrid scientific conferences, is attacking this challenge head on with the launch of the Underline Digital Video Library (DVL). The Underline DVL will aggregate and curate the best of conference and lecture presentations, captured in streaming video, from across the world and across all scientific fields.

The mission of Underline is to improve researchers and students’ access to quality scientific conference presentation and lecture video content. A key challenge academics and researchers have historically faced, is accessing critical content from conferences they could not attend. Virtual and hybrid conferences are reducing the barriers to access, but how is a scholar to stay abreast of all the content in their field being delivered across so many conferences and events?  Underline's DVL has grown to more than 25,000 videos and is growing daily. With content strength in fields across the health sciences, life sciences, engineering, technology, social sciences, business, and humanities, there is something for every researcher. And the video content has been and is being continually accrued from the world's most prestigious scientific societies, universities, and organizations, such as IEEE, AIP, MIT, Harvard, Facebook, and Google. Each video is enhanced and delivered complete with an abstract, transcript, presenter bio, and most importantly, digital object identifier (DOI), which ensures that the video can be searched and discovered alongside the scholar’s full range of output.

Underline's business model is an annual subscription fee for unlimited access to the entire Digital Video Library for the subscribing institution's patron community.

Today, Underline is pleased to announce it had raised $2.5 million in a  Pre-Series A round of funding, led by South Central Ventures and the Dutch Founders Fund. As a result, Mr. Jure Mikuz (South Central Ventures) and Mr. Laurens Groenendijk (Dutch Founders Fund) will join the Underline Board of Directors. 

"With this new round of funding, we'll be able to enhance the Underline DVL features and content greatly, and grow the team and expand our go-to-market strategy," Underline CEO and founder Alex Lazinica commented. "We are looking forward to expanding access to the digital video library across the library, government and corporate, institutional subscription market."
South Central Ventures, who led the round, Managing Partner Jure Mikuz, said, “Underline’s mission resonates with us very well as they are addressing a global opportunity by creating a library of global scientific video content. I believe they will be successful because of their proven track record and excellent execution skills along with deep industry knowledge. We are very excited to join Underline on this journey.”

Founding Partner Laurens Groenendijk of The Dutch Founders Fund states, " We believe that if Underline Science can tap into the researcher’s need to increase exposure and understanding, and build a network, Underline will quickly grow to be a leading player in science content aggregation. We at Dutch Founders hope to see underlining become a verb. If anyone is going to do it, we know a seasoned entrepreneur like Alex will.”

**About Underline Science** 
Underline is the premier virtual conference platform for events in science, medicine, academia, and other professional fields. Underline’s mission is to capture and disseminate scientific knowledge through video, making it globally accessible by enriching and preserving both virtual and hybrid conference content. Underline’s groundbreaking Digital Video Library is providing new opportunities to expand access to the scientific record and accelerate scientific discovery. For more information, visit the Underline website and follow Underline on Twitter. 

**About South Central Ventures**
South Central Ventures is a VC investor with a long and enduring presence in the Balkans. Operating out of four offices – Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Skopje – the team has invested in about 40 early-stage tech companies and has been an integral part of the local start up community. With a strong base of international investors, South Central Ventures is a go-to investor for regional tech companies competing in global markets. SCV’s portfolio companies include Cognism, Celtra, Agrivi, Orgnostic and AdScanner, among others.

**About Dutch Founders Fund**
Dutch Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund from Amsterdam, started by a group of successful Dutch entrepreneurs, including Laurens Groenendijk founder of Just Eat, Treatwell, Miinto and Hiber, Patrick Kerssemakers founder of fonQ, Bas Beerens, founder of WeTransfer, Hidde Hoogcarspel, founder of Spacebuzz, and Remco van Zanten, founder of Booking, Zalando, Vinted and BCG.

The fund specializes in marketplaces and companies with strong network effect potential. Since its launch in 2018, the fund has successfully invested in 16 companies. Including YourCampus, Shypple, Vintage Cash Cow, Lumaly, Blanco, Nostics, Reveall, Veylinx, Wonderkind, Voicebooking, Fleks, Minimum, Caya, Winc Academy, Buildstream and Tracedock, which was sold to CM.com. The total fund has near €100 million in assets under management. Dutch Founders is a committed partner of Techleap’s Fundright initiative. 


                Underline Science Closes Pre-Series A Funding Round to Enhance Virtual and Hybrid Conference Support with the Launch of the Digital Video Library

Alex Lazinica, founder of IntechOpen, the world’s leading publisher of open access (OA) books, is expanding the boundaries of access to scientific content through streaming video


Underline Science Closes Pre-Series A Funding Round


**The Largest Scientific Hybrid Conference To Date**

*Thousands projected to participate in EMNLP 2021*

NEW YORK- October 27, 2021  - Some three thousand scientists and researchers are expected to participate in the upcoming [EMNLP 2021](https://2021.emnlp.org) (2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing). Based on current estimates, 600+ people will be in beautiful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with thousands more attending and presenting online. 
Unique in the design is that every attendee, whether local or virtual, will have a rich engaging immersive experience. Presenters and attendees can either be local or remote, with full and equal participation for all.

It is easier said than done with an  [exciting program spanning 5 days](https://2021.emnlp.org/program) (November 7-11 2021), with 21 workshops, 2 satellite conferences, many parallel sessions, keynotes, plenaries, posters and more. 

Powered by [Underline ](https://underline.io)(underline.io), EMNLP 2021 is easily one of the larger scientific conferences, unique in that it is promoting a full democratic and equal experience for every attendee, with the notable exception that the online participants will not physically enjoy the beautiful Barceló Bávaro Convention Centre and surroundings in Punta Cana.

EMNLP 2021 Chairperson Marie-Francine Moens explained that “EMNLP has a long rich history of successful conferences that our community is looking forward to every year.  We were hoping that by November 2021 much of the world would already be past the pandemic. As the situation is fluid and changing daily, we needed to find a way to hold the event so every participant and presenter would have a deeply engaging and satisfying experience, regardless of their ability to attend in person.”

Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Chief Executive said “running a conference of this size is always challenging. This becomes infinitely more difficult during the pandemic; especially when our goal is to provide an equal, engaging, interactive experience that is seamless, whether you are in or virtual. Besides the technical challenges, people’s availability change daily due to personal, health and country mandates.  
We are happy to partner with Underline to produce this conference since their platform and services will host much of the technical and organizational challenges both virtually and in-person.”

Alex Lazinica, CEO of Underline added “We are honored to work with ACL on EMNLP and their flagship conferences. Having produced Hybrid events of various kinds for many months, our team provides white-glove service and an unbeatable online platform to leading associations such as ACL, IEEE and many others.” 
                                                     
**About ACL and EMNLP ** 

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) provides the preeminent forum for dissemination of the latest developments in computational linguistics and natural language processing. In recent years, ACL conferences have enjoyed a growth spurt.  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a leading conference in the area of natural language processing and artificial intelligence.  EMNLP is organized by the ACL special interest group on linguistic data (SIGDAT) and was started in 1996. According to Microsoft Academic, EMNLP is the 14th most cited conference in computer science.

**About Underline Science **

Underline is the premier virtual conference platform for events in science, medicine, academia and other professional  fields. Underline’s mission is to capture and disseminate scientific knowledge through video, making it globally accessible by enriching and preserving both virtual and hybrid conference content. Underline’s groundbreaking  scientific Digital Video Library is providing new opportunities to access and expand the scientific record and  accelerate scientific discovery. For more information, visit the Underline website and follow Underline on Twitter. 

Thousands projected to participate in EMNLP 2021



EMNLP -Largest Hybrid Scientific Conference to Date

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chip-mavens-of-the-isscc-gather-virtually-for-ai-quantum-5g/


ZDNet Highlights the 68th ISSCC on Underline

ZDNet Features 68th Annual International Solid States Circuits Conference (ISSCC) On Underline

https://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/News/Featured-News/ProQuest-Invests-in-Virtual-Conference-Venue-Underline-Science-%c2%a0-144067.aspx#.X8YcyAKScJI.twitter

ProQuest's Investment in Underline Highlighted by Information Today

Underline Featured in Information Today

https://www.stm-publishing.com/underline-science-adds-scientific-association-veterans-to-advisory-board/

**Former Leaders of IEEE and American Physiological Society Join Underline Team**

New Advisory Board Members Highlighted on STM News

https://www.pcma.org/networking-virtual-events-solutions-aamas/

*“We would have had 400 people at the in-person meeting planned for Auckland," she said, “and we had more than 1,300 people watching on day one.” *[](https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/underline.prod/uploads/markdown_image/1/image/73944417f3fba11de7f25bac4e4f80cd.png)

CONVENE Magazine Features Underline

https://www.against-the-grain.com/2020/07/v323-the-innovators-saga-an-interview-with-alex-lazinica-ceo-underline-science-inc/
 

Against the Grain provides the latest news about libraries and publishers. Their goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals.  

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