Literature
Discover a new way to search for literature with ResearchGATE.
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Semantic relations
The custom designed semantic search engine built by ResearchGATE represents a new way to search for information. Instead of simply relying on matching keywords, semantic search returns hits that are meaningfully related to what you're looking for. Using semantic search allows you to be more efficient and effective than ever before.The semantic search engine also uses your profile information to recommend fellow researchers, groups, literature, and other ResearchGATE resources that may be of interest to you.
You can use following wildcards to make the search results broader:
adenovir* vector* gen? gene AND therapy "Albert Einstein"
Literature search
Databases
Using ResearchGATE's internal search engine allows you to simultaneously search seven major databases consisting of over 35,000,000 articles and conference abstracts. All databases are updated daily.
The databases are:
Directory of Open Access Journals
When you view an article you can see other members that have added it to their personal library which you can then view.
Similar Abstract Search Engine (SASE)
Using ResearchGATE's unique Similar Abstract Search Engine (SASE) lets you search for publications using an entire abstract. Based on the information in this abstract, a semantic analysis is performed between it and over 35,000,000 articles in the database. Publications are returned based on the meaning of what is in the abstract and not just keywords. Being no longer restricted to a simple keyword search makes your literature search more effective and efficient than ever.
Journal finder
Are you ready to submit your work to a journal? Paste your abstract into the 'Journal Finder' and the SASE will find appropriate journals for your work. Journal Finder is located under the 'Literature Search' tab in 'Literature'.
Click on a Journal name to view more details (Impact Factor, Publication restrictions etc.)
Literature statistics
Here you can view recently added, highest rated, and most popular publications in ResearchGATE.
Publication details
Add me as author
If you find an article where you are an author, add this publication to your publication list.
Add to my library
If you find an interesting article, you can add it to your personal library (Home#My Profile) and share it with your colleagues and contacts.
Suggest to researcher
Allows you to suggest papers to other researchers.
Ranking
Every scientific paper accessible via our search engines can be rated and commented on by ResearchGATE members. This unique tool creates a new way of discussing and sharing research results within the scientific community. Since our publication database of more than 35 million articles is updated daily, you can rate even the most recent publications. You can select between five different rank levels from „not interesting“ to „remarkable“. The number of rankings and the average ranking level will be displayed.
Access this publication on an external database
ResearchGATE provides you the direct link to the found publication, in case you want to access the full publication.
Similar publications
If you read the abstract of an article in ResearchGATE, we suggest additional, similar publications to you based on the SASE.
Cite This and Share This
Share This and Cite This allow you to post content from ResearchGATE to your blog or web page, as well as share publications with your colleagues on a variety of other networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
Self archiving restrictions
This information gives you the self-archiving restrictions from the journal in which your work is published.
Comments on publication
You can comment on every paper in ResearchGATE.
Self-Archiving
When you self-archive your published, peer-reviewed work you make it freely-accessible online, usually by placing it in a repository (institutional or subject-based) or on a personal server. Yet many authors miss this chance to improve their work’s visibility because they believe self-archiving is prohibited by the publisher. In most cases this assumption is false. Nearly 90% of journals allow authors to make versions of their papers accessible online – and as self-archiving gains momentum, this figure only continues to increase. Moreover, many publishers who do not yet openly allow for self-archiving will grant the author permission upon request. Sometimes authors mistake self-archiving with self-publishing and avoid it because they don’t want to be associated with the vanity press. But these two procedures are completely unrelated – self-archiving simply means increasing the availability of an already-published work. The integrity of the peer-review process and other quality control measures connected to publishing in a journal is maintained.
Why self-archive?
Self-archiving is a cost-free way to make your publications more visible. By improving access to your articles, you can help increase the citations your research receives and improve your position in the field. But self-archiving is not only for the benefit of the author – by making your work freely accessible, you give back to the field and aid new research. Indeed, this greater community benefit is the reason behind the recent mandates for public access that many funding bodies and institutions have established (including the NIH, Wellcome Trust and the UK Research Councils). More and more, open access is part of grant requirements, usually because public sources fund the projects and the managing institutions believe that the public deserves access to the research they helped facilitate.
Where to self-archive?
Institutional repository: Many universities or other research institutions host their own repositories for the preservation and dissemination of their intellectual output. Although many institutions have them, these repositories are frequently underutilized, often because of lack of funding.
Subject-based repository: More common is archiving in a subject-based repository. These repositories, such as PubMed Central or RePEc, restrict themselves to certain fields, where they are usually very prominent. Many are also long established – arXiv, for example, predates the world wide web.
Personal homepage: You can also place your work on your own website or server – ResearchGATE profile pages, included in this category, are free of charge and can be set up at https://www.researchgate.net.
Restrictions on self-archiving?
According to publishers’ definitions, a paper can exist in three forms:
Pre-print: This is the version the author submits to a journal for peer-review.
Post-print: Once the article has been reviewed and the author has made any corresponding revisions, it becomes the post-print version.
Publisher's version: This is then the text after it has been copy-edited, formatted and had all the reference links added. For online journals, this version might be quite different from the PDF of the same text if there are many links and interactive tables.
As the author, you are often allowed to self-archive both pre-print and post-print versions, although sometimes only the pre-print version is allowed. If this is the case, you may attach a corrigenda so that the changes made during peer-reviewing accompany the work. Occasionally, you may even self-archive the publisher’s version.
Which version you can self-archive and the conditions for its release depend on the journal publisher’s policies. Legally, authors have all copyrights to their pre-print texts (unless they have specifically sold these and will receive royalties for them – this is not the case with peer-reviewed research, for which the author is paid nothing and there is no royalty revenue). While some journals forbid the self-archiving of a pre-print version – which is a matter of policy and not copyright – their numbers are rapidly declining.
Restrictions on post-print and publisher’s versions are matters of copyright – the transfer of the rights are bound to these post peer-review versions. Yet over 60% of the journals do allow the post-print version to be self-archived. More may grant permission upon request.
Self-archive with ResearchGATE
Self-archiving over a ResearchGATE profile page offers many advantages. The ResearchGATE search engines will display your publications among their results and the ResearchGATE semantic matching tool will recommended your articles to other users. These unique resources promote your work to the thousands of researchers who use the site daily. Additionally, publications archived on ResearchGATE are easily found by Google and other external search engines, so they are still retrievable through more traditional means. Since the publications are linked to your personal profile, all traffic they attract will be directed over your site, which further improves the visibility both of you as a researcher and of your other projects.
Read here how you can self archive your papers.