ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a further expansion to their Journal Home partnership, increasing coverage to 595 journals. In addition, Taylor & Francis has activated the pioneering Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU) for all included journals and covering all their open access (OA) agreements.
The expanded partnership will make it easier for researchers to discover OA funding opportunities available to them through Taylor & Francis OA agreements. They will also be able to explore an additional 178 Taylor & Francis titles through Journal Home, including unique journal profiles and enhanced discoverability and access across all touchpoints on the ResearchGate platform.
Taylor & Francis saw strong readership and authorship growth for the 417 titles activated on Journal Home throughout 2024 – with 1,450,000 individual researchers engaging with their journals on the ResearchGate platform and producing more than 6,600,000 reads of the 140,000 articles included.
This new expansion will see more journals across an even broader range of subject areas being available to ResearchGate’s 25m+ researcher members and delivering unique user insights and seamless content updates for authors in participating journals. The unique engagement that Journal Home creates for journals also continues to drive authorship across the portfolio. In 2024, more than 2,400 authors were highly engaged with a Taylor & Francis’ journal through Journal Home prior to submitting to that journal and then went on to have their submission successfully published.
Furthermore, with the activation of the OAAU across the expanded set of journals, Taylor & Francis is increasing their ability to share details of open access agreements with relevant authors.
Activating the OAAU for Taylor & Francis will:
- Raise researchers’ awareness of the agreements they can benefit from.
- Highlight journals that are covered by those agreements.
- Provide links for researchers to confirm their eligibility for OA funding.
- Present opportunities for researchers to utilise funding to publish in relevant journals.
- Support increased impact of new research through higher uptake of OA publishing opportunities.
“Our network of OA agreements is growing fast and we’re now partnering with over 1,000 institutions around the globe to boost open access publishing. However, it can still be difficult for authors to navigate available OA funding pathways,” said Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis. “Journal Home’s OAAU should make OA publishing opportunities in our journals more visible for eligible authors and therefore help to further increase the amount of new research openly available to readers worldwide.”
“Our partnership with Taylor & Francis continues to bring increased benefits to authors and readers and now, with more journals included and the OAAU, Taylor & Francis can leverage Journal Homes’ unique capabilities to strengthen their journey towards an open research future,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “We’re delighted to see this relationship deepen further, and to see how the OAAU can help grow the reach of Taylor & Francis’ OA agreements.”
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