[ILL-L] www.academia.edu

[Mary Lehane]

ILLers,
Here's an interesting new site. If you've ever had to track down an 
elusive work by an academic, this site may be helpful. File under 
"creative verification tools".
(Check if there are any researchers in it from your own institution.)

Mary Lehane,
York University, Toronto, Canada


Forwarded message from r.w.g.price at academia.edu -----
    Date: Tue,  2 Dec 2008 18:55:30 -0600 (CST)
    From: r.w.g.price at academia.edu
Reply-To: r.w.g.price at academia.edu
 Subject: [STS-L] Announcing "Academia.edu" to the Association of 
College and
Research Libraries Science & Technology Community
      To: sts-l at ala.org

Dear all,

I recently finished my Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. 
With a
team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website,
www.academia.edu, which does two things:

 - It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, 
displayed
according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.
 - It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area 
- the
latest people, papers and talks.

We are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the
world -- Faculty Members, Post-Docs, Graduate Students, and Independent
Researchers. Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the 
tree
by clicking on the boxes.

Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 15,000 academics have 
added
themselves in the last two months. Some professors on the site include:

 - Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
 - Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
 - Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
 - Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
 - Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker

We're trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible. It
would be terrific if you could visit the site, and add yourself to your
department on the tree. If your university is not there, you can add it by
clicking on the arrows coming out of the university boxes.

Independent researchers - if you are a researcher that is not associated 
with a
university, I encourage you to add yourself to the "Independent Researchers"
portion of the tree at http://independent.academia.edu

And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can.


Many thanks,

Richard

Dr. Richard Price
http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
ACRL Science & Technology Section Discussion List
Join, change your subscription, or unsubscribe:
http://lists.ala.org/wws/info/sts-l
Archives:
http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/sts-l

----- End forwarded message -----


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/ill-l/attachments/20081205/418b450d/attachment.htm