Academia.edu
Dr. Richard Price (http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice) recently finished his Ph.D at Oxford on the philosophy of perception. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he launched a website, Academia.edu, which has two main goals:
- To show academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.
- To enable academics to see news on the latest research in their area – the latest people, papers and talks.
They are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world — Faculty Members, Post-Docs, Graduate Students, and Independent Researchers. Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the boxes.
It is reported that academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 24,000 academics have added themselves in the last four months.
They are trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible. So visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree for your university. If your university is not there, you can add it.
