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And in 2020, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra has just ...
"One more word about ResearchGate/Academia.edu and why using these platforms will never be equal to proper self-archiving"
DARIAH OpenOne more word about ResearchGate/Academia.edu and why using these platforms will never be equal to proper self-archivingThe use of ResearchGate and Academia.edu, two of the most popular but also heavily criticized social networks that compete with each other for the ‘Facebook for academics’ title, is still an ever recurring topic in conversations about self-archiving choices, or even in recent discussions about the role and competitive advantage of universities investing in open infrastructural components. These conversations inspired me to leave here an easily citable note in which I clarify why DARIAH does not endorse the use of these services, what the major differences are between sharing papers via these privately-owned platforms vs. self-archiving (a.k.a. green Open Access) and why understanding the persistent popularity of these services is crucial if we wish to take back control over the ways we communicate our work.
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Some months later, in 2018, Naomi Truan (@BerLinguistin ) reminisced about her personal experience of ditching her Acad & RG profiles on
"The Day I Removed my Publications from Academia & Research Gate"
Ici et làThe Day I Removed my Publications from Academia & Research Gate Well, this is it. I have decided to remove all my publications from Academia and Research Gate (and no, I will not insert a link to those sites). Sometimes, there are things you’ve been wanting...
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In 2017, Janneke Adema (@openreflections) returned to that topic, to take a closer look on
"Academia.edu and Self-Branding"
https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/academia-edu-and-self-branding/
OPEN REFLECTIONS · Academia.edu and Self-BrandingLast week I was invited to give a talk at UCSB Library. Underneath you can find a transcript of my talk and a selection of my slides. Academia.edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars…
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Around the same time, and in a similar vein, a number of scholars inluding Janneke Adema (@openreflections), Gary Hall (@garyhall), Eileen Joy, and Guy Geltner had also written numerous critiques of the thinly-veiled for-profit goals of those academic social networks. #OAWeek #OAWeek23
All of these critiques have been collected & documented (together with a comprehensive bibliography) in Volume 9 of the Culture Machine Liquid Books series titled
"Really, We're Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files"
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106236504/The%20Academia_edu%20Files
liquidbooks.pbworks.comliquidbooks / The Academia_edu Files
Happy #OAWeek, everyone!
As it's that time of the year again, I thought it might be an idea to dust off one of my older birdsite threads, the reposting of which has become a bit of a tradition during Open Access Week, so here we go... #OAWeek23 #servicetoot
With academia.edu and ResearchGate apparently still being confused for actual #openaccess repositories in this year of 2023, please join me on a brief journey to revisit a number of critical examinations of those platforms... a 
As far back as 2015, @kfortney & Justin Gonder @ University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication noted:
"A social networking site is not an open access repository"
Office of Scholarly Communication · A social networking site is not an open access repository - Office of Scholarly Communication“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?” “I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy? These and similar questions have been been common at open access events over the past couple of years. Authors want to better understand the differences between these platforms and when they should use one, the other, or some combination. First, a brief primer on what each service has to offer: ResearchGate and Academia.edu ResearchGate and Academia.edu are social networking platforms whose primary aim is to connect researchers with common interests. Users create profiles on these services, […]
Do you like philosophy? Flash fiction? Literary theory? This next #OAWeek23 Deposit-A-Thon highlight might be of interest to you! Check on M. Munro's book here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:60151/
TOMORROW! Join us in celebrating #OAWeek23 by participating in our CORE Deposit-A-Thon! Every user who adds something to our #openaccess repository will receive a shout out on our social platforms AND a badge for your Commons profile. 
Learn more about our repository: https://hcommons.org/core/
Happy #OAWeek23 everyone! This year's theme of "Community Over Commercialization" resonates with us because we're driven by the values you'd expect from an open-access, open-source, and nonprofit scholarly network.
If you haven't already joined us on Humanities Commons, create an account and get started today: https://hcommons.org/
This week is Open Access Week! 
A lot of researchers have to contend with paywalls, but there's more than one way to make your research open access, including
Self-archiving your author-accepted version (Green OA)
Paying a journal's OA fee (Gold OA)
each with different benefits
Read more: https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/openaccess
Mark your calendars! 
As part of the #OAWeek23 fun, on Thursday, October 26th, we'll be holding our first ever CORE Deposit-A-Thon! Every user who adds a work to our #openaccess repository will receive a shout out on our social media platforms AND a badge for your Humanities Commons profile.
