I think it's a bit bad that people immediately started questioning this
person's credentials! People seem to have very suspicious minds!

Perhaps he should be apologised to? (If possible)

Claire

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discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Louise Cooke
Sent: 02 October 2008 10:30
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Subject: Re: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches

I think oxford.ac.uk redirects to ox.ac.uk, so you can use either in the
email. I know at Reading there's the choice to type @reading.ac.uk or
@rdg.ac.uk and Westminster can also be wmin.ac.uk

I don't have that many opinions on the academia site itself, except that
it would be depressing to find that librarians will be somewhere at the
bottom of the tree of importance!

Louise Cooke
London College of Fashion Library

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Also an interesting email address! A simple Google of Oxford University
and philosophy picks up the following ac.uk address:

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/

Not as stated PHILOSOPHY.OXFORD.AC.UK

Curious!

Marion


Marion Barnes BA(Hons), MSc, MCLIP
Fire Service College
Moreton-in-Marsh
Gloucestershire
GL56 0RH
ENGLAND
Direct Tel. 01608 812995
www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk

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Sent: 02 October 2008 10:10
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I wouldn't say that in itself is conclusive, because people may use the
more common form in general 'speech' even when they know it's
technically a 'D.Phil.' at Oxford. However, a quick check on

http://www.theses.com/

shows no thesis at Oxford on this subject by an R. 'Price'.

Alan

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and 
>discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Buxton
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:53 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
>
>Another strange thing is that the degree isn't called "Ph.D."
>at Oxford!
>
>Andrew Buxton
>Brighton
>
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>discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Thomas 
>Krichel
>Sent: 01 October 2008 23:24
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
>
>  Peter M. Adams writes
>
>> On 30 Sep, Richard Price
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > 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, www.academia.edu, which does
>two things:
>>
>> On the principle of "keep it simple", couldn't the site be
>made to work
>> without Flash and Java Script?
>
>  Writing such a site is a not a trivial undertaking. It's not the  
> sort of thing you would throw together, in your spare time,  while 
> writing a PhD. It appears that the domain is owned by a  US based 
> company. A whois query shows
>
>Domain Name: ACADEMIA.EDU
>
>Registrant:
>   Academia
>   942 Windemere Dr. NW
>   Salem, OR 97304
>   UNITED STATES
>
>  Thus this looks like a commercial, rather than academic endeavor.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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