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ResearchGate and Wiley announce cooperation agreement

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    Hi Everyone,

    ResearchGate and Wiley announced a cooperation agreement this morning:

    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.

    As part of the cooperation agreement, Wiley and ResearchGate will:

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    • Experiment with new models of journal article discovery to better serve the companies’ shared objective of advancing research communication and collaboration
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    • Develop and share insights about the usage of Wiley content on the platform
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    • Collaborate on educating users about their rights in relation to copyright-protected content by providing clear and relevant information about how and when they may share their journal articles on the network
    • Work to promptly identify and address any copyright-infringing public sharing of Wiley content on the ResearchGate platform

    The full announcement is available at https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/researchgate-and-wiley-announce-cooperation-agreement

    Originally funded by entities such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ResearchGate’s more formal move into data brokering practices is to be expected. This announcement makes visible what we’ve known for some time, and I hope it can prove useful to you when discussing the differences between entities such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu versus academic lead platforms.

    Best,

    Megan

     

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    Beth Evans
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    Hi Megan,

    Do you think this is connected in anyway/similar to the recent alliance of ResearchGate and Springer?

    https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/ResearchGate+and+Springer+Nature+pilot+program

    Beth

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