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ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis expand Journal Home partnership to 595 journals and activate Open Access Agreement Upgrade. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, announced a further expansion to their Journal Home partnership, increasing coverage to 595 journals. In addition, Taylor & Francis has activated the pioneering Open Access Agreement Upgrade for all included journals and covering all their open access agreements. The expanded partnership will make it easier for researchers to discover OA funding opportunities available to them through Taylor & Francis OA agreements. They will also be able to explore an additional 178 Taylor & Francis titles through Journal Home, including unique journal profiles and enhanced discoverability and access across all touchpoints on the ResearchGate platform. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and CSIRO Publishing announce new Journal Home partnership. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and CSIRO Publishing, Australia's leading science publisher of books, peer-reviewed journals, and magazines, today announced a new Journal Home partnership covering over half of CSIRO Publishing's internationally respected journal portfolio. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and IOP Publishing to further expand Journal Home partnership with extra titles and Open Access Agreement Upgrade. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, announced that IOP Publishing will further expand its coverage through Journal Home. A further 25 IOPP and partner titles have been added to Journal Home taking the total number to 75. In addition, IOPP will activate Journal Home's unique new Open Access Agreement Upgrade for all journals included in the partnership. [Full Announcement].

New partnership between ResearchGate and Pensoft to drive readership and visibility of open access journals. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Pensoft, an independent open access academic publisher known worldwide for its cutting-edge publishing workflows, announced a new partnership that will see a set of Pensoft's open access journals increase their reach and visibility through ResearchGate – increasing access and engagement with its 25 million researcher members. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and MDPI partner to boost the visibility of open access journals through Journal Home. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and MDPI, the largest open access publisher in the world and a pioneer in open access publishing, today announced a partnership that will see 10 of MDPI's open access journals benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through its innovative Journal Home offering. This new partnership will expand the reach and visibility of MDPI's participating flagship journals with ResearchGate's highly relevant community of more than 25 million researchers globally. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate integrates with GetFTR. GetFTR has announced that ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, has integrated with the service as part of an expanded offering for publishers. Over the last few months, GetFTR has been building, and ResearchGate testing, a new opt-in service that provides a faster way to check entitlement information between publishers, academic discovery services like ResearchGate, and reading platforms [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and Wiley Connect Researchers with Personalized Content, Learning Opportunities. ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, announced further plans to connect researchers with the companies and organizations that provide services and products that can support their work. This follows on the heels of the announcement last month bringing the two companies together to better support the needs of researchers through ResearchGate's collaboration platform. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and Wiley announce cooperation agreement. ResearchGate, the largest professional network for researchers, and Wiley, a global leader in research and education, today announced a cooperation agreement to explore ways in which Wiley and ResearchGate can collaborate to better support the needs of researchers through ResearchGate's collaboration platform. Wiley and ResearchGate are committed to the protection of intellectual property rights for authors and publishers; and through this partnership, both companies will continue to support principled sharing of content while facilitating the discovery of and access to high-quality scholarly content for researchers. [Full Announcement].

Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme and ResearchGate announce new cooperation to make it easier to navigate the legal sharing of academic journal articles. In a cooperation agreement announced today, three publishers and ResearchGate will work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers. The agreement ultimately involves publishers who want to help and support content sharing and believe that working with ResearchGate, the largest professional network for scientists and academics, is one of the important means to achieving this. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate welcomes cooperation agreement with three major scientific publishers. This agreement is the result of several years of talks about working together to further facilitate the sharing of journal articles in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate and Springer Nature plan cooperation. ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights. The companies are cautiously optimistic that a solution can be found, and we invite other publishers and societies to join the talks. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate secures investments from Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, and Four Rivers Group as the place where scientific progress happens. ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists, announced investments from Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, and Four Rivers Group with participation from Ashton Kutcher, Groupe Arnault, Xavier Niel, and existing investors Bill Gates, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, and Founders Fund. Since receiving this growth investment of 52.6 million USD in November 2015, ResearchGate has broken new ground in connecting the world of science and making it open to all. Already, more than 12 million members share over half a million research updates daily and 2.5 million publications every month, including information traditionally not shared, like code or negative results. [Full Announcement].

Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital Invest in ResearchGate to Advance Scientific Innovation Through Open Science. ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists, today announced a new investment from Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital with participation from Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital and the company's existing investors Benchmark and Founders Fund. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate takes over Scholarz.net. ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists, today announced its acquisition of scholarz.net, a reference management, knowledge management and academic network based in Würzburg, Germany. Scholarz.net was founded in 2008 by economist and political scientist Dr. Daniel Koch and media technologist Marc Willwacher as a spin-off of the interdisciplinary research project “Scientific Work in the Web” at the University of Wurzburg. The platform is a product by KnowledgeWorkz GmbH, founded shortly after the launch of the network. [Full Announcement].

Founders Fund Invests in ResearchGate, The Professional Network For Scientists. ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists and researchers, today announced the completion of its Series B financing. The round is being led by Founders Fund partner Luke Nosek, co-founder of PayPal, with participation from Benchmark Capital, Accel Partners, Michael Birch (co-founder, Bebo), and David O. Sacks (founder/CEO, Yammer, Inc. and founder/chairman, Geni, Inc.). With Fund IV, Founders Fund's largest fund to date, the firm is seeking to make investments with an emphasis on transformational technologies and companies, particularly in the fields of medicine and biotechnology. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGate Closes Series A Funding for Social Media Site for Scientists. ResearchGate, a social network for scientists and researchers, today announced the completion of its Series A financing. The substantial group of preeminent international investors from the US, UK, and Germany have converged upon ResearchGate to support the growing platform. [Full Announcement].

ResearchGATE and the International Academy of Life Sciences (IALS) have launched a cooperation in the area of scientific networking.. ResearchGATE and the International Academy of Life Sciences (IALS) have launched a cooperation in the area of scientific networking. The IALS will establish ResearchGATE's technology as the number one communication platform among scientists in its transatlantic network, enabling them to communicate more efficiently about ongoing research and other current projects. [Full Announcement].