Contents
Introduction
Really, We're Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files, charts the debate over for-profit academic social networking sites (aka academic research sharing platforms) such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate and Mendeley. It features contributions from Gary Hall, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Eileen Joy and Guy Geltner. Although it has initially been put together by Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, like all those titles in the Liquid Books series, The Academia.edu Files is open for anyone to add to, edit, reversion and comment upon.
Part 1 Background to the Debate
Background
This section provides some background to the development of various academic social networking sites (SNS), as well as highlighting some of the ongoing discussions regarding certain aspects of their continuing development. It provides information about: the business models and capital behind for-profit academic SNS; discussions relating to the new reputation metrics and systems introduced during their development; and plans to implement new commentary and review functions.
Part 2 The Critique
Gary Hall, ‘What Does Academia.edu’s Success Mean for Open Access?' LSE Impact Blog, October 22, 2015
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, ‘Academia. Not Edu’, www.plannedobsolescence.net, October 26, 2015
Martin Eve, 'Academia.edu’s Peer-Review Experiments', www.martineve.com, October 26, 2015
Alex Rushforth, 'The Facebook-ization of Academic Reputation?', The Citation Culture blog, October 28, 2015.
Guy Geltner. 'Upon Leaving Academia.edu', Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, December 7, 2015
Guy Geltner: On Leaving Academia.edu
Katie Fortney and Justin Gonder, ‘A Social Networking Site is Not An Open Access Repository’, Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California, December 2015
Eileen Joy, ‘Open Letter to Rosemary Feal, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and the Modern Language Association’, Punctum Books Blog, December 15, 2015
Janneke Adema, 'Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu. Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons', Open Reflections, April 7, 2016
Part 3 Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?: The Symposium
Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on December 9 2015 on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’
Janneke Adema (Coventry University, UK)
Slides / Presentation
Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France)
Slides / Presentation
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US)
Slides
Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK)
Slides / Presentation
David Parry (Saint Joseph University, US)
Slides
Part 4 Alternative Platforms
Alternative Platforms
This section lists alternative not-for profit Academic Social Networking Sites, as well as open-source tools and software applications to set-up your own academic SNS, network or functions.
References
Bibliography
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