The Tokai University, Tsukuba University of Technology and Utsunomiya University have signed up as affiliates of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. These agreements enable researchers from these affiliated institutions to publish on the Japan Institutional Gateway. These new affiliates mark a significant expansion of the world’s first (English/Japanese) dual language open research publishing venue that looks set to continue to grow throughout the year, with more affiliates expected to join in 2023.
JIG was launched with the support of the University of Tsukuba in August 2022, allowing researchers from across the university to publish rapidly and with full transparency. It is open to submissions from Japanese research institutions who wish to participate in JIG’s affiliation program helping to accelerate the adoption of open research in Japan. Research in all subject areas can be published on the Gateway, and researchers in humanities and social sciences can choose to publish their articles in Japanese or English, showcasing their work in a Scopus-indexed, international publishing venue in the language that best befits their work.
The Gateway combines the benefits of rapid publication (enabled by post-publication peer review) with mechanisms to assure quality and transparency; rigorous pre-publication checks, open peer review, archiving and indexing.
All outputs published on JIG have open licenses, ensuring free access, and maximizing the opportunity for use and re-use. This publishing model is also used on the customized publishing platforms that F1000 provides for major global funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs.
F1000 is currently seeking to grow the affiliation program, and welcomes expressions of interest from Japanese research institutions.
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