ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis expand strategic Journal Home partnership
Two-year agreement now covers 800 journals, including Community Engagement Upgrade and Open Access Agreement Upgrade for all titles
ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a further two-year expansion of their strategic Journal Home partnership. The renewed agreement now covers 800 journals across the Taylor & Francis portfolio. It also includes the Community Engagement Upgrade (CEU), which connects researchers to key content in the journals that serve their community, and the Open Access Agreement Upgrade (OAAU) which makes it easier for authors to discover open access (OA) funding opportunities available to them through Taylor & Francis OA agreements.
The expanded partnership equips Taylor & Francis journal teams with new tools to deepen engagement with relevant researcher communities, support strategic journal development, and accelerate dissemination across the portfolio.
Since 2023, Taylor & Francis’s partnership with ResearchGate has delivered sustained growth in international readership and attracted highly relevant authors from ResearchGate’s global community of 25 million+ researcher members. With the addition of the CEU and expanded activation of the OAAU, Journal Home now supports a broader range of journal development priorities, including commissioning, editor-led community building, and clearer communication of funding available to authors.
The expanded partnership will:
- Deepen engagement between researchers and journal editors through the CEU: new tools help editors understand their journals’ communities and communicate more effectively with readers through features such as Editor Picks.
- Increase uptake of OA publishing through the OAAU: authors receive timely, personalised notifications about open access agreements and their eligibility to publish in Taylor & Francis journals.
- Make it easier for researchers to discover and explore the journals and research articles they need through dedicated Journal Profiles, prominent journal branding, and automatic sharing of content across ResearchGate.
“Our Journal Home partnership continues to support key goals for Taylor & Francis by strengthening researcher collaboration, increasing author uptake of open access opportunities, and fostering the impact of trusted knowledge,” said Leon Heward-Mills, Managing Director, Academic and Chief Content Officer at Taylor & Francis. “With the addition of the Community Engagement Upgrade, we’re excited to provide our editors with new tools and insights to help them better understand, support, and grow their journals’ communities.”
“Our expanding partnership with Taylor & Francis reflects our shared commitment to supporting researchers worldwide to find the research they need, and access the journals most relevant and useful to them,” said Mathias Astell, VP of Commercial Product at ResearchGate. “By extending Journal Home, the CEU, and the OAAU, across a larger portfolio, we’re making it easier for researchers to discover and access trusted content, for journal editors to understand and engage their community and for Taylor & Francis to connect more deeply and effectively with global researcher communities.”