Does the use of academi.edu premium help you improve the publicity of your paper? What are the benefits?
In my university we all were recommended to register in Academia.edu, for the sake of visibility. However, I have not, and I will not register in Premium. I disagreee with the payment of these activities.... We are in the age of open access, no matter what. Why shoukd you pay for that?
In my university we all were recommended to register in Academia.edu, for the sake of visibility. However, I have not, and I will not register in Premium. I disagreee with the payment of these activities.... We are in the age of open access, no matter what. Why shoukd you pay for that?
I use the free of charge membership to this platform for some years. Academia.edu is practically a competitor to RG with more members (more than 48 millions). Academia’s mission is to make all research available for free to everyone in the world. Upgrading to premium is a way to support this mission and help make all scholarship and science easily and freely accessible to everyone, not just those affiliated with well-endowed institutions.
Hello there,
Academia Premium is a suite of exclusive features that allow you to learn more about your readers, get more out of your analytics, and improve your Academia experience.Academia Premium is in limited private beta now. ( As per Academia.edu themselves)
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Academia.edu is a venture-capital funded private company that provides a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September 2008, with 31 million registered users as of January 2016 and over 8 million uploaded texts. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and others
Academia.edu is using the scientific content and personal information provided by it's members to build up a user base and huge content, and then is trying to sell the information (selling premium accounts) about their own profiles (like who has viewed a member's papers, or who mentioned it etc.) to the very same people; by means of blocking access to this kind of previously available information. This is a version of extortion , but a very ironic one, this extortion is done by the power provided to the profit seeking owners of Academia.edu, by people who trusted that platform as a free medium and chose Academia.edu as their main channel for web visibility. So may be it's our own stupidity of using a profit seeking/commercially motivated platform as if it's not; without checking the owners, mode of conduct of management of the company and the terms of use.
I will delete my Academia.edu account when I complete my personal web page and university page.
I see no actual benefits from using Academia.edu Premium. Don't waste your money.
See Criticism section of Academia.edu on wikipedea and associated links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu#Criticism
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