In Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press has a new ResearchGate agreement for five MIT Press journals. Image – Getty: JHVE Photo
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
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‘Pushing the Boundaries of Scholarly Publishing’
From Berlin, we have news today (November 15)—as University Press Week closes—of another partnership for ResearchGate‘s “Journal Home” program.
The agreement will see Journal Home activated for five MIT Press journals – including both open-access and hybrid titles.
All full-text version-of-records from the participating journals, whose disciplines cover neuroscience, linguistics, and computation, will be syndicated to ResearchGate and available to its membership it says numbers more than 25 million researchers.
This includes access to subscription articles for entitled users, as well as all fully open access content, boosting discoverability and expanding usage of MIT Press content.
The MIT Press journals participating in Journal Home “will benefit from being discoverable and accessible through the ResearchGate platform,” the ResearchGate media messaging says, “including having a dedicated journal profile, which provides key information and content from the journal, as well as unique insights into the journal’s communities.”
Authors published in these MIT Press journals are also expected to benefit, ResearchGate says, “from this new agreement with their articles automatically uploaded to their ResearchGate profiles—giving them a better look at the demographics of their readership and of who is citing and sharing their work.
Nick Lindsay
“Part of our MIT Press mission is to lead by pushing the boundaries of scholarly publishing,” said Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access at the MIT Press.
“By utilizing ResearchGate’s global online network of researchers through Journal Home, we can ensure the broadest possible access and audience for our authors’ work.
“We look forward to gaining a deeper understanding of how readers are engaging with our journals and growing our authorship through Journal Home.”
Sören Hofmayer
Sören Hofmayer, a co-founder and chief strategy officer at ResearchGate, says, “By enhancing awareness of their titles through Journal Home, we’re positioned to help them find new relevant authors globally and connecting existing authors and publications to an engaged global network of the right readers.”
More on the Journal Home approach at ResearchGate is here.
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