6. Academic Social Network Sites
Profiles sites and repositories
Network and find collaborators
For Peer-reviewed
General
Subject Specific
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Menedeley
SAGE Research Methods
ResearcherID
SSRN
RePEc
MCRN
BioMedExperts.com
Epernicus
7. Comparison
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Mendeley
SSRN
Coverage
All
All
All
Specific subjects
Network size
7.1 million
3 million
1.6 million
239,102
Full-text
1.6 million
17.6 million
200 million
420,454
Analytics
Profiles
Doc views
Download
Countries
Followers
Following
Profiles
Doc views,
Download
Request for fulltext
Countries
Followers
Following
Q&A
RG index
Doc views
Readership
stats
Doc views
Download stats
Citation
Ranking
Eigenfactor
Collaborators
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Job
Yes. Via job
board. Can load
CV.
Yes. List skills and
Expertise.
Yes. Can load
CV.
No
Share files
Papers, data,
Github
Papers, data,
patents
Papers
Papers
8. Comparison
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Mendeley
SSRN
Link to OA or external
URL
Yes
No. Except if you
have load the fulltext.
Yes.
Yes
Track versions
No
No
No
Yes (private
papers)
Login
FB, Google
FB
FB
Sign up with email
Sign-up with
institution email only
Sign-up with
email
Sign-up with
email
Free
Free
Free
Free
Fee for
premium /
institutional ac
Fee for access to
e-journals
Access
9. Academia.edu
Go to http://www.academia.edu
Login with your Google or Facebook account
Go to http://nanyang.academia.edu
Search for your professor
18. Mendeley
Login using facebook
account
More than a online
reference tool
Follow or join groups
Statistics on who is
reading your paper
19.
20.
21.
22. SSRN
(Prebble, Caldwell, & Keene, 2013)
As of Nov 2013, SSRN contains 514,008 abstracts and
420,454 full-text papers contributed by 239,102 authors
Papers upload to SSRN : tracks number of downloads,
number of citations, edited paper receives a fresh date of
submission
Subject areas : Accounting, Anthropology & Archaeology, Corporate
Governance, Cognitive Science, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance,
Health Economics, Hebew, Humanities: Classics, Humanities: Literature,
Humanities: Music & Composition, Humanities: Philosophy, Humanities:
Rhetoric & Communication, Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation,
Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Political Science,
Social Insurance, Sustainability
26. Role of Librarians
…Librarians might help colleagues prepare their careers for a
more social-media-driven environment by explaining basic
social networking best practices, which might include
something as basic as a profile on a site like Academia.edu, or
any other publicly available site that allows users to list their
publications. For example, Google Scholar has a component
that allows users to claim articles and build a profile, with the
option of keeping the profile private, although that would seem
to defeat the purpose of these new analytic tools, that seek to
measure public engagement.
(Ovadia, 2013)
27. Activities
Which Research Network(s) are your professors using?
(Look for 2-3 faculty from your school)
Where can you locate “experts” in your subject area?
Share your findings and experience as a blog posting
28. Reference
Kelly, B. (2013, February 6) Why I’m evaluating ResearchGate. [Web log post]
Retrieved from http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/why-im-evaluatingresearchgate/
Ovadia, S. (2013). When Social Media Meets Scholarly Publishing. Behavioral & Social
Sciences Librarian,32(3), 194-198.
Prebble, J., Caldwell, J., & Keene, A. (2013). Using the Social Science Research
Network to aid and to promote research. Victoria University Of Wellington Law Review,
44(3/4), 631-652.
Editor's Notes
Academia SNS
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/libresearch/entry/mendeley_and_researchgate/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate
http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/ResearchGate
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1316/personal-web-page-vs-academia-edu-vs-researchgate
RePEc – Research Papers for Economics
SSRN – Social Sciences Research Networks http://www.ssrn.com
MCRN – Mathematics and Climate Research Network http://www.mathclimate.org/people/
Epernicus – www.epernicus.com
Elsevier purchased Mendeley last year.
Share your papers
See analytics on your profile and papers
Follow other people in your field
Ask questions to get help with your research from experts in your field
List skills and expertise (Job searching)
Institutional grouping
Login using facebook account
Contributions : list of publications
Info : resume on skills, research experience, education, etc.
Stats
Private papers do not have download statistics and not searchable via SSRN public search engine.
New papers got sent out to subscribers (at least 15,000 subscribers)
School-specific e-journals only contains unpublished papers or papers that have been published in the last twelve montgs
SSRN : Accounting, Anthropology & Archaeology, Corporate Governance, Cognitive Science, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Economics, Hebew, Humanities: Classics, Humanities: Literature, Humanities: Music & Composition, Humanities: Philosophy, Humanities: Rhetoric & Communication, Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Political Science, Social Insurance, Sustainability