Hershey (USA) and Berlin (Germany) - IGI Global, a leading international academic publisher, is pleased to announce that it has signed a new agreement with ResearchGate, the premier platform for global scientific content discovery and networking. This transformative partnership involves the inclusion of numerous IGI Global highly-indexed journals (Web of Science (WOS) as well as Scopus) with full dedicated pages on the ResearchGate platform. These journals aggregate into IGI Global’s Open Access Journal Program that proudly touts nearly 200 journals. This new partnership will allow the global research community to benefit from greater discoverability and access to published content from IGI Global’s 200 Open Access Journals Program free of charge since all these journals are fully open access. Furthermore, the new collaboration between IGI Global and ResearchGate aims to increase the visibility of IGI Global published research and assist IGI Global authors in achieving higher impact for their published work.
"The inclusion of IGI Global’s most highly indexed OA journals on the ResearchGate platform reflects our ongoing commitment to providing OA publications to the research community. With the added ability for experts to connect and network with other researchers on this platform, our OA journals and published articles have a greater potential to reach everyone in need of quality, peer-reviewed research and facilitate knowledge sharing that can fuel further research, discoveries, and innovations." – Melissa Wagner, Vice President of Editorial, IGI Global.
IGI Global’s Open Access Journal Program offers 200 open access journals with a focus on Business & Management; Scientific, Technical, & Medical (STM); and Education studies. IGI Global's swift transition of its journals to 100% open access in less than three years aligns with funding mandates like PlanS and OSTP, maintaining the publisher's dedication to the open access movement. IGI Global currently supports faculty worldwide at different academic institutions worldwide through its strong Read & Publish Open Access Agreements. IGI Global welcomes new research libraries globally to consider IGI Global's Open Access Agreements in support of their faculty’s interest to publish in these journal. Interested librarians can contact Mr. William Hartley regarding IGI Global’s Open Access Read & Publish Agreement Program, to learn more about how their institution can benefit from entering into a partnership with IGI Global.
For more information about IGI Global's collaboration with ResearchGate and to explore the Open Access journals, please visit
https://www.igi-global.com/.
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About ResearchGate
ResearchGate was founded in 2008 to address the challenges in the creation and sharing of scientific knowledge. With a mission to connect the global scientific community, ResearchGate has grown into a thriving network of over 25 million researchers spanning diverse sectors in more than 190 countries.
About IGI Global – Publishing Tomorrow’s Research Today
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA with a subsidiary office (IGI Science and Technology, Ltd.) operating out of Beijing, China, IGI Global is a leading medium-sized independent international academic publisher of cutting-edge, high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly reference publications in the three major academic subject areas of
Business & Management,
Scientific, Technical, & Medical (STM), and
Education. With a commitment to facilitating the discovery of pioneering scientific research, this publishing house has empowered over 200,000+ expert researchers from leading institutions globally to bring advanced research books from conceptualization to completion in an impressive 6-9 months from proposal acceptance to publication IGI Global journal articles have a rapid turnaround, on average taking 2-4 weeks, and are then added to a significant portfolio of nearly 200 journals within IGI Global’s Open Access Journal Program. IGI Global is one of the largest 100% OA Journal Publishers in the World. Through traditional and open access publishing workflows, this unique proprietary process makes
tomorrow’s research, which enhances and expands the body of knowledge, available to the research community
today.
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