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.