Scholarly Publications: Creating and Maintaining a ResearchGate Profile

1. From any page in Research Gate, click on the Add new button in the top right corner.
   
   
   
2. Select Publication from the options that appear to add an article, book, chapter, etc.
   
   
   
3. Select the type of publication you are adding.
   
   
   
4. From here, you can add a publication to your profile using the Author Match, Search, Reference Manager, or Manual Entry options to add publications to your profile.  Note: options may be different based on what you're adding.
   
   
   

In general, authors who publish articles in academic journals are required to sign a copyright transfer agreement, which grants the journal's publisher copyright for the article.  This limits whether the full text of an article can be posted on sites like ResearchGate (citations for any article may be posted anywhere, including RG).  

The guide below contains a chart with guidelines detailing whether articles from specific journals may be posted on ResearchGate.