It took three years for Richard Price, a PhD in philosophy, to get a paper published. The slow speed of that inspired him to start what is essentially a social network called Academia, where academi
For several years, Richard Price has had a quixotic dream to make cutting-edge academic research universally available to everyone.
"I want a world where a 19-year-old kid in China can access a pap
Academia.edu, a social networking platform for academics that's looking to change the way scientific research is shared, just acquired Plasmyd, a search engine and discussion platform for research pap
For about five years, Richard Price and the team at Academia.edu have been quietly building a social networking platform for academics and researchers. For years, it was slow going. It took three year
It wasn't until widely respected economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shared the Excel files behind their influential paper on the relationship between government debt and economic growth, th
Even though it's taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn't necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia.
But it's starting to ha
Far away from Silicon Valley is another echo chamber in the Ivory Tower, except there's very little transparency there about how content and ideas spread.
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<a href="http://www.academia.edu"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/academialogo-1.png" alt="" /></a>As any scientist can tell you, there are thousands of scholar
<a href="http://www.academia.edu"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/academiaedulogo.png" alt="" /></a>When it comes to academic research, it's easy to think that
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Collaboration has long been one of the most fundamental components