Hi all,

with the ongoing fuss about us related to the Elsevier partnership, I am not sure that it is the best timeframe to try to do something with academia.edu, their model being partly based on harvesting OA resources and creating enclosure around them. I know that a lot of OA advocates are really reluctant with this website (and researchgate, mysciencework and co).

Personally, I would not be very comfortable with encouraging links to their website, as getting any article from them require to create an account and that I am not sure that there are guarantees about what they will do with collected data...

Regards,

Sylvain

2015-09-14 17:31 GMT+01:00 Paul S. Wilson <paulscrawl@gmail.com>:

Here's the link, see note 11 - Note to self: don't try Wiki syntax on Gmail!
Wikipedia article on Academia.edu

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Paul S. Wilson <paulscrawl@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting question, James.

Academia.edu serves millions as a personal repository for their academic preprints (usually legal) and published versions (often not so) - the question is, do we dare risk such when institutional depositories with vetting of allowable content are readily available?

As an experiment, [[Academia.edu]] article has a cited reference to paywalled content (footnote #11 as of today) to which I've appended a link to the preprint version of the article on academia.edu, noting "/* Reception */ + "Academia.edu preprint" (with differing pagination from canonical published version; other editorial changes likely) of Thelwall & Kousha (2012)".

Per Academia.edu's voluminous [https://www.academia.edu/terms terms of use], such "Member Content" is severely restricted.

Would be interested in gaining access to site content, if TWL can negotiate - or learn to live with - latter.

Paul S. Wilson
Research Coordinator
The Wikipedia Library

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 8:24 AM, James McArdle <jmcardle@vic.chariot.net.au> wrote:
Hi,

In relation to Open Access papers, I'm wondering if WPL has had dealings with Academia.edu? (I'm new to WPL). Their website makes available papers across all disciplines by current academics who are subscribed.

Outsiders can see a few recommended articles, but there is a wealth of material hidden from them. I have contacts there as I am one of their recommending editors.

Can you tell me from your experience, is it worthwhile exploring whether of access can be provided to,or via, WPL for our users?
Regards,
James

James McArdle

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