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ResearchGate and The Royal Society deepen their partnership of collaboration in the year 2024

 

The Royal Society and ResearchGate have joined hands to expand their partnership. They have decided to jointly cover all the journals of Royal Society, increasing the visibility and readership of 45000 articles at a global level.

Currently, the Journal Home product of Researchgate platform has increased the visibility of 10 journals of Royal Society publisher. These 10 journals are of open access and subscription model of publishing. In the year 2023, ResearchGate was provided content of journals published by Royal Society.

In the year 2024, both the parties have further strengthened their partnership as it was a successful collaboration. The readership and the reach of the content provided by the Royal Society has increased manifold due to ResearchGate platform.

It was found that in the year 2023, two open access journals of the Royal Society saw a 64% increase in their usage on the ResearchGate platform. The trend of increased usage continues for these two journals as their articles have been viewed more than 1.75 million times on ResearchGate in the past 12 months.

Using the platform of Researchgate, the Royal Society’s journals could get more engagement from researches who are in their early stage of careers. The publishers of Royal Society were targeting to increase their reach in this critical demographic group.

In the year 2024, ResearchGate has introduced a new product named Journal Home. There are dedicated profiles of all the journal titles of the Royal Society publisher. The important information and the content that is relevant is sourced from each journal and provided through the Journal Home platform of ResearchGate.

The branding of prominent journals is being done on all the associated pages dedicated to articles. Journal Home provides insights into unique network, paving the path to increase The Royal Society’s engagement with the journal community.

Each of the journals’ profiles contain the names of editors and authors. Thus, members of ResearchGate platform can understand how a journal is connected to a network of academic professionals.

Authors of the Royal Society publisher have benefitted additionally from the partnership of the publisher with ResearchGate. Their research work gets added automatically to their profiles on ResearchGate platform.

Thus, the visibility of the articles is boosted and the platform provides insights into who is currently reading the article and citing their research paper. Thus, the connectivity of the authors with the readers has increased significantly.

More 75,000 authors have benefitted as they have added their articles to their profiles on ResearchGate. The discovery and accessibility of these articles has increased sharply due to features of “Journals Home.”

 

 

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A partnership between ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis eases access to scholarly publications

A partnership has been announced between ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis, making it a new development in the field of STEM publishing. ResearchGate is a leading professional network of researchers, enabling collaboration and sharing of research publications.

Taylor & Francis is a renowned publisher of journals and books in the academic world. With this partnership, Taylor & Francis would provide access to 200 high quality journals to researchers registered at ResearchGate.

ResearchGate has specifically designed a new service entitled “Journal Home” to cater to the growing demands of journals. All the 200 journals would get enhanced visibility on ResearchGate platform. A profile will be created for each journal on ResearchGate, which would be accessible to researchers throughout the platform. Every journal title will also have an article page, benefitting sharing, collaboration, and networking.

This development is interesting as it plans to make more than 100,000 recorded versions of open access articles freely readable on ResearchGate platform. All the articles written henceforth will be included in the 70 completely OA journals and be available for viewership on ResearchGate.

Taylor & Francis is an important name in the field of academic publisher. It has published cutting-edge research from various disciplines, such as sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Since Researchgate platform has more than 25 million researchers, this partnership would benefit the publisher immensely. It would increase the readership of viewers and engage the interest of new audiences.

The founders of ResearchGate have expressed their gratitude to the publishers: Taylor & Francis. They will be embarking on a new journey as they make so many articles freely accessible. Most scientific content is hidden till today under the restrictions of a paywall, thanks to subscription journals. ResearchGate supports the OA model of publishing in academia, paving a new way for researchers in developing countries.