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Nosotros'll be honest – we idea long and hard about including this affiliate and its activities in the OU Impact Challenge. Academia.edu and ResearchGate both seem attractive to scholars, just they also have their share of disadvantages and downsides.

Ultimately, we decided to include this information, considering so many of you at OU take accounts on these two sites. A quick search turns upward 3,849 OU-affiliated users on Academia.edu and 4,731 on ResearchGate! But instead of diving right into the "how tos," we think information technology's especially important to place these two sites into context and preface them with of import considerations.

Consideration #1: You Are Not the Client

Similar to many of the other bookish social networks nosotros cover in the OU Touch on Challenge, you are not the customer when you interact with these companies, even though you may feel similar one. Instead, you are the product that these services seek to monetize and/or "offer up" to advertisers. We don't fault businesses for making money; that is the imperative for them to exist. Only we also see Academia.edu and ResearchGate as an extension of those who monetize what many scholars believe should be freely shared.

Importantly, if these companies are bought, sold, or become out of business, what would happen to the content yous've placed there? This is one reason why information technology is advisable to first upload items you lot want to share – articles, preprints, postprints, briefing posters, proceedings, slide decks, lesson plans, etc. – to SHAREOK (which we'll be roofing in Chapter 12 of the OU Impact Challenge). Librarians maintain an OU Faculty/Staff Collection and a Graduate Student Drove in SHAREOK where you can deposit your work. The items in SHAREOK are indexed by Google and Google Scholar, and then they are searchable, findable, and downloadable by researchers around the world. OU librarians maintain the platform, the content, and the links. Well-nigh importantly, maintaining and preserving content is ane of the core missions of the OU Libraries. We aren't going out of business organization, and then your content on SHAREOK won't become abroad either.

Consideration #2: You Might Be Breaking the Law

Another consideration with these detail services is the legality of uploading your work there. Most publishers crave authors to sign a publication agreement/copyright transfer prior to a manuscript being published which outlines what you can/cannot exercise with your own work in the future (we will cover this in Chapter 11 of the OU Impact Claiming). Uploading your work – especially a publisher's pdf – to a site such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate may be a violation of the terms of the publishing understanding, whereas uploading it to an institutional repository may not be (or tin be negotiated not to be). Several years ago, a major academic publisher actively went subsequently Academia.edu, requiring them to take downwardly all of the publisher's content that had been illegally uploaded, much to the surprise and dismay of these authors. And Academia.edu is not the only target. Earlier this year ResearchGate was set to have downwardly nearly seven meg manufactures or most 40% of their content.

Consideration #three: Understand the Privacy Implications

Finally, some of these sites' tactics are troubling from the standpoint of privacy and intellectual freedom. Personally and professionally, many find it distressing that a private company, which doesn't adhere to the same professional ethics as librarians and other scholars do, collects information about who is reading what. Academia.edu, in particular, and then offers to share that information with you if yous subscribe to their "premium service." And while their analytics dashboard doesn't reveal readers' names, it may provide enough data for y'all to know exactly who read your work.

You may make up one's mind not to pay for Academia.edu'southward premium service, but even so – what you view and download will all the same be tracked. This may not be troubling to y'all (the "I'm not doing anything wrong, and so I don't intendance" argument), just we retrieve it sets a bad precedent. What about tracking researchers who study terrorism? Or whistleblowing? Or fifty-fifty climatic change? How might people at these academic social media companies create profiles and make judgments about you based on what you are reading? And what will they practice with the information they collect, specially if asked for it by authorities entities?

We've posted some boosted reading and resources below. And we will continue to comprehend some of these topics in the future, since they are highly relevant to sharing scholarly work. If yous're nevertheless interested in Academia.edu and/or ResearchGate after reading these articles, we've gone ahead and included those activities further downward below. Nosotros've purposefully kept these activities cursory, at least for now.

A Social Networking Site is Non an Open up Access Repository, by Katie Fortney and Justin Gonder
I Have a Lot of Questions: RG, ELS, SN, STM, and CRS, by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Dearest Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu, by Sarah Bond
Academia, Non Edu, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Reading, Privacy, and Scholarly Networks, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Upon Leaving Academia.edu, past G. Geltner
Should Yous #DeleteAcademiaEdu, by Paolo Mangiafico
Should This Exist the Last Thing You Read on Academia.edu?, by Gary Hall (downloads as a .pdf)

Brand Profiles on Academia.edu and ResearchGate

You lot know all those things yous wish your CV was smart enough to do – embed your papers, automatically give you readership statistics, and and so on? Academia.edu and ResearchGate are two bookish social networks that allow you to exercise these things so some.

They're as well places where your some of your colleagues are spending their time. Actively participating on ane or both networks may requite you an opportunity to have greater reach with other researchers. And getting your publications and presentations onto these sites legally will arrive easier for others to encounter your work. They do this not only through the social network they assist you build, just as well past improving the search engine optimization (SEO) of your enquiry, making you much more "Googleable."

Both platforms allow you to do the post-obit:

Create a profile that summarizes your inquiry
Upload your publications, and then others tin find them
Find and follow other researchers, so you can receive automated updates on their new publications
Notice and read others' publications
See platform-specific metrics that indicate the readership and reach you have on those sites

Permit's dig into the basics of setting up profiles and uploading your piece of work on these sites.

Getting Started on Academia.edu

Logon to Academia.edu. If you lot're a business firm believer in keeping your professional online presence split up from your personal one, you'll likely want to sign up using your OU e-mail address. Otherwise, you tin sign upwardly using your Facebook or Google contour. From here, you'll be directed through the basic signup process.

First upward: posting a publication or ii. How practice you cull what to share? If y'all're an established scholar, this volition exist easy: just choose your most highly cited paper. If you're early in your career or a graduate student, choosing might be tougher. A peer-reviewed paper is always a good bet, as is a preprint or a presentation that'south closely related to your virtually current topic of research.

Got a paper in listen? Now comes the not-equally-fun-but-incredibly-necessary part: making certain you have the rights to mail service it. Most authors don't realize that they mostly sign abroad their copyright when publishing an article with a traditional publisher. And that means you may not take the rights to post the publisher's version of your commodity on Academia.edu. (If you lot negotiated to keep your copyright or published with an authors' rights-respecting journal like PLOS Biology, requite yourself a pat on the back and skip the following paragraph.)

If y'all don't have copyright for your paper, all hope is not lost! You likely accept the correct to post some version of the article (oft the unedited, unformatted version). Head over to SHERPA/RoMEO and look up the journal y'all published in. Y'all'll see any and all restrictions that the publisher has placed on how you can share your article. We'll be explaining more almost SHERPA/RoMEO in Chapter 11, only luckily it'south an easy enough tool to utilize before then.

If yous can post your commodity (or your preprint or postprint), upload information technology to Academia.edu by clicking the green "Upload" button near the top of the window and navigating to the publication you want to upload.

Once it's uploaded, hit the big blue "Continue" push, and y'all'll be asked if you're uploading a published or unpublished work. The title of your publication will then be automatically extracted. Make any corrections necessary to the title, and add together co-authors and an abstruse. Note that if your co-authors aren't already on Academia.edu, the only way to add them is to provide their email address and Academia.edu volition send them an invitation to join the site. Add "research interests," which are keywords that will help others discover your publication. Select the blazon of publication from the drop downwardly menu, and and then click "Save and End." From there y'all'll exist taken to a full-page ad asking if y'all'd like to upgrade to the Premium version of Academia.edu.

Fill Out Your Profile

Now it'south fourth dimension to add your OU affiliation and interests to your profile. Adding an OU affiliation will add yous to a subdomain of Academia.edu which will let you to more hands find your colleagues. The site will try to guess your amalgamation based on your electronic mail accost or IP accost; brand whatever corrections needed and add together your department data and title.

Then, add your research interests. These are also important; they'll help others notice you and your piece of work.

Connect With Others

Now let's connect with your colleagues who are already on Academia.edu. You can either connect your Facebook account or an email business relationship to Academia.edu, which volition search your contacts and suggest connections.

You lot now have an Academia.edu profile! You can keep to spruce it up by adding more publications, as well as adding a photo of yourself, other research interests and publications, and connecting your Academia contour to the other services we've covered like ORCiD, GoogleScholar, Twitter, and LinkedIn. See how this might be coming together?!?

Academia.edu Homework

Now that you have a profile, ready bated half an hour to explore ii uses of Academia.edu:

Exploring "research interests" in lodge to discover other researchers and publications; and
Getting more of your most important publications online; and

Research interests: On your profile page, only your first enquiry involvement is visible (followed by a number in parenthesis, which represents how many boosted inquiry interests you have). Hover your mouse over your enquiry involvement to brand the others announced, and then click on i of them. Yous will exist taken to a page with uploaded papers tagged with the same research interest.

Towards the top of the folio, notice you're on the "Papers" view. In that location'southward besides a "People" view that volition have you lot to the profiles of scholars with similar interests. For the search results that appear, accept some time to explore the profiles and papers of others who share your involvement(south) and follow anyone that looks interesting.

We're willing to bet y'all'll find scholars and papers that yous weren't aware of earlier. Yous can likewise use the Academia.edu search to expect for research interests outside of the ones y'all've got listed in your profile and explore those search results as well.

Upload more than papers & presentations: click the "Upload papers" tab at the peak right corner of your screen and upload at least two more papers or presentations that you lot think are worthy of attention. Call back to abide by whatever copyright restrictions that might exist, and as well be certain to add as much descriptive information as possible, which will brand it easier for others to discover.

Make a Profile on ResearchGate

Next, nosotros'll help you lot with the other major thespian in the scholarly social network infinite, ResearchGate. ResearchGate claims 15 1000000 users, and it will help you connect with many researchers who aren't on Academia.edu. It can also assist you empathize your readers through platform-specific metrics, and confirm your status as a helpful expert in your field with their "Q&A" feature.

Given ResearchGate'southward similarity to Academia.edu, we won't rehash the basics of setting upwardly a contour and getting your publications online. Go ahead and sign upward, set your account (call back to add detailed affiliation data and a photo), and add a publication or 2.

Got your basic profile upwardly and running? Dandy! Allow'due south drill down into those iii unique features of ResearchGate.

Find other researchers & publications

Finding other researchers and publications on ResearchGate works a bit differently than on Academia.edu. ResearchGate automatically suggests research interests and connections for y'all based on who you've cited, who you follow and what field of study you selected when setting up your profile.

Therefore, key to creating a robust network is uploading papers with citations to be text-mined and searching for and following other researchers in your field. Until y'all've done this, ResearchGate can be a flake of a struggle to use effectively.

Searching for other researchers in your field is easy: apply the search bar at the top of the screen and type in your colleague's name. Click on your colleague'south name in the search results to be taken to their profile, where you can explore their publications, co-authors, and and so on, and also follow them to receive updates and suggestions for like scholars. Here we've searched for and found Carl Dahlman:

ResearchGate also text-mines the publications you've uploaded to find out who you've cited. Using that information, they add both researchers you lot've cited and those who have cited y'all to your network. Your network also includes colleagues from your department and institution. Y'all can view and collaborate with your network downwards the right side of your profile page where you'll see them broken upwards into:

Following
Followers
Cited Past
Cites
Acme co-authors

Again, you must actively follow others and upload your work in order for your network to appear in this mode.

Click on the blue "Follow" to follow a scholar whose work you already know. Or click on the author'due south name to be taken to their profile. On the author's contour you tin can explore their publications, and if you lot observe an interesting i but click the newspaper title to read the paper. This makes adding new colleague to your network a snap and finding new papers a breeze!

ResearchGate Score & Stats

If you lot're into metrics, the ResearchGate score and stats offer lots to explore. The ResearchGate score is an indicator of your engagement on the site: the more than publications and followers yous have, plus the more questions you lot enquire and respond, all add up to your score. We'll use Carl Dahlman's profile as an example again:

ResearchGate likewise helpfully provides a percentile (seen to a higher place on the correct-hand side), so you know how a score stacks up confronting other users on the site. The score isn't normalized by field, though, so beware that using the score to compare yourself to others isn't recommended.

Another downsides to be aware of: ResearchGate scores don't take into account whether you're first author on a paper, they weigh site participation much more highly than other (more important) indicators of your scientific prowess, and don't reflect the reality of who's a loftier-bear upon scientist in many fields. So, caveat emptor.

All that said, ResearchGate scores are fun to play around with and explore. Just be certain not to have them too seriously.

The ResearchGate stats (viewable merely on your own contour folio when you are logged in) are also illuminating: they tell y'all how often your publications take been viewed and cited on ResearchGate (recently and over fourth dimension), what your tiptop publications are, and the popularity of your profile and whatever questions yous may accept asked on the site's Q&A section.

A like caveat: like Academia.edu stats, ResearchGate stats are only for content hosted on ResearchGate, and then it can't tell you much nearly readership or citations of your work that's hosted on other platforms. And since information technology's likely that your entire field isn't agile on ResearchGate that means ResearchGate stats aren't representative of your full touch on.

Limitations

We've covered many of the limitations of Academia.edu and ResearchGate in the outset section of this affiliate. But there is withal some other one. It has been pointed out that Academia.edu and ResearchGate are data silos – you put information and effort into the site, merely you can't easily extract and reuse it later. This is absolutely correct. That's a big downside of these services and a great reason to make sure you've claimed your ORCiD in Chapter 1.

One solution to this drawback (and the ones mentioned above) is to limit the amount of time you spend adding new content to your profiles on these sites, and instead utilise them as a kind of "landing folio" that tin can merely help others observe you and three or iv of your nearly important publications. Even if you don't take all your publications on either site, their social networking features may yet be useful to brand connections and increase readership for your most important work.

ResearchGate Homework

Ready your ResearchGate profile and add at to the lowest degree three publications you think deserve attention. Next, search for at least v colleagues or well-known scholars in your field and follow each of them. Once y'all've established a network, take 10 minutes to explore them and their publications.

Next, try out a broader search in ResearchGate by searching for a cardinal word in your discipline. Below, nosotros searched for "bounding main audio-visual environment" and constitute researchers, publications, projects, questions, and more:

For improve or worse, you've now claimed your professional presence on 2 of academia's biggest social networks and learned how to use them to find other researchers and publications. More chiefly, you've optimized your contour so others can find y'all and your research more hands, thereby increasing potential exposure for you and your publications. Yous also have 2 new sources of metrics that will give you another way to evidence how oft you're read and cited.