I'd be interested in the answers to Steffi's questions too. It's a very bold and big undertaking. Do you expect it to be bigger than other similar ventures like Community of Science or Biomedexperts? It seems to have rather a humanities bias at present, judging by the list of research interests. I also note that it's limited to Universities - no room for research institutes or industrial researchers?
Frank Norman
NIMR
At 05:31 26/09/2008, you wrote:
>Hello Richard,
>
>This looks interesting - and very much like facebook for the friends aspect, and for the academic part, like nature network (minus the interactivity). Could you maybe say a bit more about what your rationale and motivation is for this website? How does it keep 'track' of people and papers one isn't already aware of, since contacts have to be added 'manually'?
>
>Thanks,
>Stephanie Suhr
>
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>Subject: [PSCI-COM] Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, where I recently finished my Ph.D
>on the philosophy of perception.
>
>I've just launched a website, <http://www.academia.edu>www.academia.edu, which does two things:
>
>- It displays academics around the world in a 'tree' format, according to
>what university/department they are affiliated with.
>- It enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their
>field - the latest people and papers.
>
>My hope for the site is that it will list every academic in the world --
>Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students.
>
>It's gaining some traction - Stephen Hawking is on there, (
><http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking>http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking ), and other professors are
>including Richard Dawkins ( <http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins>http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins ), and
>Noam Chomsky ( <http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky>http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky ).
>
>I'm trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu. If you have a minute,
>please visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree. If
>your department/university is not there, you can add it/them by clicking on
>the arrows coming out of the department/university boxes.
>
>And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Richard
>
>Dr. Richard Price,
>Prize Fellow,
>All Souls College,
>Oxford,
>OX1 4AL
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>http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
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