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
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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-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/
>
>
>Arun
>http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
>http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009