Springer Nature plans 'co-operation' with ResearchGate

Days after a coalition of publishers declared that all attempts to work with scholarly collaboration network (SCN) ResearchGate to resolve the issue of copyright infringements had failed, Springer Nature and ResearchGate have declared themselves to be planning “co-operation”, and "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome.

Last Thursday (5th October) The Coalition for Responsible Sharing - which includes Elsevier, Wiley, Wolters Kluwer, The American Chemical Society and Brill - said that as many as seven million copyrighted articles (40% of ResearchGate’s total content) had been illegally published and that all attempts to work with the SCN to find ways for it "to run its service in a copyright-compliant way” had failed. ... [mehr] https://www.thebookseller.com/news/researchgate-plans-co-operation-springer-nature-648281