‍Berlin (Germany) and Ottawa (Ontario) 10 December, 2024 – ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada's largest, not-for-profit publisher of peer-reviewed science journals, have announced a further expansion to their Journal Home partnership to include the Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU). This follows the recent expansion of their Journal Home partnership to cover CSP’s complete journal portfolio.

Journal Home’s OAAU is a powerful new feature that enables CSP to identify and effectively communicate with researchers eligible for publishing through their open access agreements with libraries and consortia. All 22 of CSP’s journals will now benefit from:

• A unique understanding of the number of researchers in eligible institutions that are relevant to CSP’s journals, based on their publishing history and areas of research.
• Unprecedented ability to reach and inform relevant researchers from partner institutions about their eligibility to receive funding support at CSP’s journals. 

• Continuous visibility of the read-and-publish messaging while researchers interact on ResearchGate, whether reading an article, visiting a journal profile, searching in their feed, or updating their own profile.
• Unparalleled ability 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 — with sophisticated reporting and analytics.

CSP has already seen a strong benefit from the activation of the OAAU – reaching 24% of all relevant researchers, in 100% of eligible institutions, after just four weeks of the upgrade being activated. The aim for CSP is to even further grow awareness and eventually authorship from the institutions that CSP has agreements with.

“CSP is committed to advancing open access and open science in Canada and beyond,” said Elaine Stott, Chief Executive Officer at CSP. “To sustain and expand our open access initiatives, effective communication with the research community is key. By incorporating Journal Home’s Open Access Agreement Upgrade into our journal portfolio, we can deliver personalised messaging to the right researchers that helps them easily identify their eligibility for publishing open access under our read-and-publish agreements in the journals they are already engaging with.”

“We mirror CSP’s commitment to the advancement of open science and welcome their continued pioneering efforts to grow uptake of their open access agreements with eligible researchers,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “Through continuous, personalised communication with the right researchers at the right time, the OAAU will provide ease of access to funding options and drive forward open access adoption, delivering greater publishing equity across the research landscape”.

For more information about Journal Home, please visit researchgate.net/journal-home.

For more information about ResearchGate, please visit www.researchgate.net.   

For more information about Canadian Science Publishing, please visit www.cdnsciencepub.com. 

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About ResearchGate 

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Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is committed to enhancing the reach, rigour, and relevance of science so that people can find, trust, and use it. Featuring content from a global community of researchers, CSP is Canada’s largest independent, not-for-profit publisher led by a dedicated team of researchers who are committed to advancing excellence in scientific journal publishing.