Should you #DeleteAcademiaEdu? On the role of commercial services in scholarly communication.

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Should you #DeleteAcademiaEdu? On the role of commercial services in scholarly communication.
Paolo Mangiafico, LSE Blog, 2016/02/02
There are a few interesting things here. One is the recap of last week's controverse du jour in the Chronicle revolving around an email from Academia.edu asking an academic whether he would be willing to pay "a small fee" to publicize his paper. Much outrage and the obligatory hashtag ensued. More...