As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary ...

The emails appear with spammish regularity: “128 people recently read a paper you are mentioned in,” reads the subject line, followed by more clickbait: “A total of 63 papers on Academia mention your ...

SHAREABLE STUDIES: Academia.edu, a social media platform for sharing academic research, has raised $16 million in a Series C round led by Tencent Holdings. Social Discovery Ventures also participated ...

It started earlier this month, when Elsevier sent open access forum Academia.edu 2,800 takedown notices for articles it owns the copyright to within a couple of weeks. Academia.edu is a ...