ResearchGate is Hiding Open Access Articles | Indiana University Library
Hanna_S's bookmarks 2024-06-06
Summary:
'Last year I wrote a post comparing ResearchGate with our institutional repository for generating downloads of openly shared manuscripts. In short, the repository beat ResearchGate by 84% in download counts for the works that I have shared on both sites. If I want people to find and read my articles, I’m not wasting my time with ResearchGate [...]
An article that was once openly and legally available for download on RG, is now “privately shared.” So, RG hid my article and didn’t ask to see if I had the rights to share it … and (as far as I know) didn’t even send me a notification to say that it’d be hidden from now on.'