ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and AIP Publishing, the publishing division of the American Institute of Physics, have announced an expansion to their Journal Home partnership.
All AIP Publishing-owned journals will now benefit from increased visibility, usage, authorship and brand profile through Journal Home. In addition, AIP Publishing has become one of the first partners to implement the newly-launched Open Access Agreement Upgrade for Journal Home.
AIP Publishing’s extensive portfolio supports researchers across the breadth of physical sciences, providing a vital platform for authors around the globe. After a successful pilot program with AIP Publishing’s open access titles, this new partnership also now includes content syndication to the ResearchGate platform of all AIP Publishing’s owned journals, including all open access and hybrid titles.
The new partnership provides all of AIP Publishing’s journals with:
- Seamless content syndication to the ResearchGate platform, reaching 25m+ researcher members around the world, including subscription articles being available for entitled readers.
- Increased brand visibility, including dedicated journal profiles showcasing key information and content from each title— designed with researchers in mind.
- Increased author support, including automatic sharing of articles to author profile pages and insights on reader engagement.
- Enhanced understanding of each journal’s impact, connections, and communities.
- Increased usage and authorship from the international researcher community
The partnership also integrates Journal Home’s Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU), a powerful new feature that helps publishers reach researchers eligible to publish through AIP Publishing’s open access agreements with institutions and consortia. AIP Publishing’s journals included in Journal Home will now additionally benefit from:
- Unprecedented ability to reach and inform relevant researchers about their eligibility to receive funding support at AIP Publishing’s journals.
- Targeted messaging relevant to specific AIP Publishing journals, ensuring the messaging is contextual and useful for each individual researcher.
- Unique reporting and analytics, enabling AIP Publishing to measure the volume and effectiveness of messaging about their agreements at each stage of the publishing journey — from readership all the way through to authorship.
“Accessibility is the very heart of AIPP’s vision for an open, equitable approach to scholarly publishing and scientific communication,” said Penelope Lewis, Chief Publishing Officer at AIP Publishing. “Working with ResearchGate has already benefited our open access journals with increased global readership, engagement, and authorship, and we’re pleased to now extend this across our portfolio. It’s incumbent upon us to make the advantages of open access publishing clear to our authors. Our partnership with ResearchGate helps us do just that by giving us greater capacity to inform and engage with eligible researchers — in turn providing them with greater, more direct access to the myriad funding opportunities available to them to publish their articles open access in AIPP journals.”
“AIP Publishing’s commitment to growing uptake of open access aligns with our shared vision for a more open, equitable research landscape. Through our partnership and the OAAU, we’re providing AIP Publishing with an unprecedented opportunity to engage researchers at a personal level and drive meaningful uptake of open access publishing”, said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate.
For more information about Journal Home, please visit researchgate.net/journal-home
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