Announcing “Academia.edu” to the University Library Community
Dr. Richard Price recently finished his Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he’s just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things:
– It shows academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed
according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.
– It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area – the
latest people, papers and talks.
They’re 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.
Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 15,000 academics have added themselves in the last two months. Some professors on the site include:
– Richard Dawkins – http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
– Stephen Hawking – http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
– Paul Krugman – http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
– Noam Chomsky – http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
– Steven Pinker – http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker
Many thanks,
Dr. Richard Price
http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
