From: Ellen Finnie <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:48:08 +0000

Hi Rick et al,  we find authors are not clear about the ways sites
like Academia.edu or ResearchGate differ from sites like arXiv or
PubMedCentral, or our institutional repository, so having some
terminology that helps even loosely classify these choices and their
main strengths/emphases is useful, at least from my experience here at
MIT.  We've had this very question come up a few times recently.

I think our authors have many choices and very limited time to share
their work, so to the extent we can assist in explaining the options
and the reasons an author might use particular outlets, this seems
like information many authors can productively use, at least based on
the authors I've engaged with on this.

Ellen
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From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:23:33 +0000

Did anyone ever believe that social networking sites were open access
repositories?

And do we have to choose between them?

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott
Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]




On 1/24/16, 5:28 PM, "LibLicense-L Discussion Forum on behalf of
LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of
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>From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:32:35 +0530
>
>Our friend Muthu Madhan alerted me to this article on why institutional
>repositories are far superior to social networking sites such as
>Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
>
>A social networking site is not an open access repository
>
>https://misslibrarygrrrl.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/a-social-networking-s
>ite-is-not-an-open-access-repository/
>
>
>Arun
>http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
>http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009