Berlin (Germany) and London (UK) – December 19, 2024 – ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Royal Society Publishing, part of the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy and publisher of the oldest scientific journal in continuous existence in the world, have announced that their Journal Home partnership has been extended to include the recently launched Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU). 

Royal Society Publishing expanded their Journal Home partnership in May 2024 to cover all ten of their journals – capitalising on the increased brand visibility and usage they saw through Journal Home and enabling them to engage new global audiences for their whole portfolio. 

Now with the addition of the OAAU – a powerful new feature that enables the Royal Society to reach researchers eligible to publish through their open access agreements with institutions and consortia – the Royal Society will also benefit from:

• Unprecedented ability to reach and inform relevant researchers about their eligibility to receive funding support for open access publishing in the Royal Society’s journals.
• Targeted messaging relevant to specific Royal Society journals, ensuring the messaging is contextual and useful for each individual researcher.
• Unique reporting and analytics, enabling the Royal Society 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. 

“We’ve continued to engage new and existing researcher communities throughout our Journal Home partnership, growing global readership and authorship in our journals. We are excited to now also harness the unique capabilities of OAAU to help eligible researchers publish open access in our journals, without worrying about if they have funding,” said Graham Anderson, Head of Sales & Marketing. “We're committed to making it as easy as possible for our authors to choose open access and benefit from the increased reach and engagement that this brings. Growing awareness of researchers’ eligibility for funding through the OAAU is key to achieving this.” 

“It’s fantastic to see the Royal Society activate the OAAU for their full portfolio, helping them continue to grow their open access publishing,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “The OAAU is providing an unrivalled ability for publishers to reach the right researchers throughout their publishing lifecycle. I look forward to seeing researchers covered by the Royal Society’s open access agreements benefiting from this and publishing open access in their journals.”

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

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For more information about Royal Society Publishing, please visit https://royalsociety.org/journals

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