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The scholarly publisher Springer Nature and ResearchGate, a Berlin-based academic networking platform, announced the launch of an article-sharing pilot project last Friday (March 1).
With this new initiative, articles published in 23 Nature journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, and Nature Neuroscience, between November 2017 and this March will be freely accessible from scientists’ ResearchGate pages.
“Springer Nature will upload all the necessary content, meaning that authors will not have to do anything to make their work available,” Susie Winter, the director of communications and engagement at Springer Nature, writes in an email to The Scientist. “Authors will still be bound by the license to publish agreement they entered into when they published with Nature Research.”
The initial pilot period for this project will last three months, during which “Springer Nature and ResearchGate will gather data about how and how often the articles are discovered, accessed, and ...
