METHODOLOGY: ResearchGate — a place to find and share research

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November 24, 2025

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Heather Woods

About the author:

Heather Woods, PGDip ILS, is the librarian and records manager at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Wellington.

SINCE IT WAS launched in 2010, Kaitiaki Nursing Research has generated a body of knowledge and evidence for nursing practice that reflects the interests and concerns of nurses from differing perspectives across the breadth of nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The journal also serves as a medium to foster nurses as both emerging and experienced researchers, especially in publishing research that is relevant to our local context. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is keen to support any initiatives which provide
an avenue to publicise and promote the work being done by nurses here in New Zealand, particularly with regard to research, methodology and evidence-based practice.

Research open to all

As the publisher of Kaitiaki Nursing Research, NZNO is happy for authors of articles that are published in the journal to share their work, provided it is for free distribution. ResearchGate meets this criteria and provides an opportunity for these authors to share and highlight their research findings worldwide.

ResearchGate is a professional network where scientists and researchers can share and access scientific content, knowledge and expertise free of charge. It was launched in 2008 and its mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. The 20 million researchers in the ResearchGate community come from diverse sectors in more than 190 countries, and use the platform to
connect, collaborate, and share their work.

Authors – how to start

Initially ResearchGate will ask you to sign up with your institutional email address so that it can verify that you are a researcher. If you’re a published researcher or in higher education but don’t have an institutional email address, Researchgate is still happy to consider your account request. Contact them via this webform (https://help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_
id=13146494812305) with a detailed description of your present and past institutional affiliations, field of research, and publications, or a copy of your student ID – preferably with supporting links.

Please send all relevant information in your initial message, otherwise your request may be delayed.

    1. Go to: www.researchgate.net
    2. Click: Join for free
    3. Select which type of researcher you are
    4. Enter your name, institutional email address, and choose a
      password
    5. To finish creating your account, you will need to click the
      link in the activation email you receive.

Once you have completed your ResearchGate registration and been accepted as a researcher, you can then upload any Kaitiaki Nursing Research articles for which you are the author.

Unfortunately, Kaitiaki Nursing Research is not on the list of journals on ResearchGate, so when you upload your article, remember to add [Kaitiaki Nursing Research] at the end of the article title.

Here are a couple of examples of Kaitiaki Nursing Research
articles that are already on ResearchGate.

  • (PDF) Oral history: A rich tapestry of information [Kaitiaki Nursing
    Research] (researchgate.net)
  • (PDF) The placement experience of nursing students in managed
    isolation and quarantine facilities 4 12 4 Kaitiaki Nursing Research
    (researchgate.net)

Searching for research articles

If you carry out a Google search on a specific topic, articles that are on ResearchGate should appear in your search results.

Alternatively, you can go directly to the ResearchGate site (you do not need to be logged in) and type the name of the researcher, research item, or question you’re looking for in the search bar at the top of any ResearchGate page and press Enter. If the item you’re looking for doesn’t immediately appear in the search results, try using the filters across the top of the page (e.g. Research, People, Questions).

Some articles are on ResearchGate in full, while other items have only the citation and abstract. There is a blue button that you can click on to request the full-text PDF. If the authors are on ResearchGate and have added the publication to their profiles, the request is sent straight to them. An author who concludes that they have the right to share the requested content may choose to share the full-text publicly or to send a private copy to the requester. If the authors choose to make the full-text available either publicly or by privately sharing it with you, you’ll receive a notification.

If you have any queries about adding content or searching ResearchGate, please contact the NZNO library ([email protected]).

 

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