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Springer Nature and ResearchGate announced plans on September 9 for a long-term partnership to share the publishers’ papers on the networking site.
This agreement is an extension of a pilot article-sharing project that began in March 2019. Through that initiative, content from 23 Nature-branded journals was automatically uploaded onto authors’ ResearchGate platforms. In July 2019, the pilot was extended to include content from 18 additional titles from the publisher’s Springer collection.
Findings from the pilot were released in a white paper this week, which reports that approximately 50,000 articles were uploaded during the program. Comparisons of article retrievals before and after they were shared on ResearchGate revealed that papers uploaded (syndicated) to the platform were downloaded between 0.6–19.5 more often. And in a survey of close to 700 authors, 90 percent reported viewing the partnership as a positive one.
Under the new agreement, four times as ...
