Berlin (Germany) 20 February, 2025 — ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and De Gruyter Brill, a global leader in humanities publishing and beyond, have today announced an expansion of their Journal Home partnership covering 60 titles. They have additionally activated the pioneering Open Access Agreement Upgrade.  

The extended partnership follows a successful content syndication agreement that has been in place since January 2023. 60 journals covering a broad and representative range of De Gruyter Brill’s combined portfolios will now benefit from Journal Home’s advanced visibility features and insights, including:  

• Increased brand profile, with dedicated journal profile pages highlighting key information and content, along with prominent journal branding across article pages and relevant member touch points.
• Improved author support, with articles automatically added to authors’ profile pages, and providing key insights into who is reading and citing their articles.
• Increased impact on authorship for the journals through continuous engagement and interaction with relevant authors throughout their publishing cycles.

• Full content syndication covering all historical and newly published articles, providing greater accessibility and visibility with ResearchGate’s highly relevant, global audience of 25m+ researcher members. This includes access to subscription content for entitled users.

• A deeper insight into the impact, engagement and communities of each journal through Journal Home’s unique analytics.

With the Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU), De Gruyter Brill also seeks to address a widely reported challenge: making researchers aware of funding available to them through institutional Open Access (OA) Agreements. The OAAU offers De Gruyter Brill:  

• A unique understanding of the number of researchers in eligible institutions who can benefit from De Gruyter Brill’s OA agreements, based on their publishing history and areas of research.

• An unprecedented opportunity to communicate directly with individual researchers about their eligibility for funding under agreements.

• The ability to deliver highly targeted messages across relevant member touchpoints on the ResearchGate platform, providing timely and contextual information to researchers as they engage with individual journals.

• A rich understanding of the effectiveness of communication, with unique reporting and analytics measuring engagement at each stage of the publishing journey – from readership all the way through to authorship.

“This is an important time for De Gruyter Brill as we strive for new and better services for our author communities, so we are delighted to expand our collaboration with ResearchGate,” said Zita Jeukendrup, VP of Marketing. “Activating the OAAU for our journals further supports our commitment to grow OA publishing in the humanities, where funding is a known barrier to participation. Highlighting our agreements to eligible researchers enables the possibilities of open research for these authors.”

“We have long been admirers of De Gruyter Brill and their drive to push the boundaries of publishing, seeking new ways to disseminate knowledge among global researcher communities,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “It’s an exciting time for the newly combined organisation to drive forwards open access and enhance author service, and we look forward to seeing OA growth across the portfolio.

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 De Gruyter Brill, please visit degruyterbrill.com  

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About ResearchGate

ResearchGate is the professional network for researchers. Over 25 million researchers use researchgate.net to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. Based in Berlin, ResearchGate was founded in 2008. Its mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all.  

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About De Gruyter Brill

De Gruyter Brill is a global leader in humanities publishing and beyond. Headquartered in Berlin (Germany) and the second largest office in Leiden (The Netherlands), De Gruyter Brill publishes over 3,500 books and 800 journals per year with a particularly strong focus on the humanities and social sciences and a program extending to subject areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Created in 2024 as a combination of the publishing houses De Gruyter and Brill, the heritage of De Gruyter Brill goes back to 1683 and 1749, respectively. Since then, De Gruyter Brill has been committed to publishing excellent scholarly works as a trusted partner of academics across disciplines. For more information, visit degruyterbrill.com.  

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