Comments on: Paper Accepted for OR12: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?

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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:37:50 +0000

[...] asked Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? has been summarised in a post on the UK Web Focus blog. At the OR 2012 conference itself this summary had to be given in the challenging context of 21 [...]

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Adding Google Juice To Your Repository | Innovation Support Centre — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:09:35 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post that summarises the paper and another about the poster session. Jenny has blogged further thoughts on the original paper as part of this ongoing [...]

By: RIchard M. Davis

RIchard M. Davis — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:51:50 +0000

Hi Brian Melissa Terras has a related story to tell in a recent RSP presentation and related blog posts. There's no question it's a message worth pushing, and maybe some wider advocacy like your 'toons is in order (though I have questions about the anatomical proportions of the woman in the purple jumper). In many ways, isn't it the latest incarnation of what I once characterised as "Use the feeds". There isn't obviously a "RSS Feed" app for LinkedIn (is there?) but if there were then a dynamic feed of publications from an EPrints repository would be trivial. I have an aversion to Academia.edu, so haven't looked at it for a couple of years, but I've a grudging respect for the power of LinkedIn and the degree of respectability and usefulness it's achieved. (I've been having fun with the 'Add Projects' feature lately, have you?).

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:13:57 +0000

Hi Andy
The paper was about my other papers, on topics such as web accessibility, web 2.0, web preservation, standards, etc. The paper didn’t cover the downloads of the paper itself – for obvious reasons!
The paper does mention the possibility that the downloads are due to the profile of the authors themselves, but this would not explain the popularity of older papers which have not been mentioned in the Web 2.0 era.
I agree with you that further work is needed to see if such experiences are valid in other contexts – the paper concludes by making this point.

By: Andy Powell

Andy Powell — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:52:51 +0000

You have a high profile (personally) and you are writing about repositories for an audience who are interested in repositories which you host in a repository. In some respects, it would be extremely odd if you didn’t get a high download rate?!?

The interesting question is how your experiences can be applied across scientific and other communities who don’t share the same environment (yet).

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:09:47 +0000

Many thanks for alerting me to this. It seems an MS Word spell-checker must have changed the title of the paper at some early stage :-(

By: Carmen Morlon

Carmen Morlon — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:36:21 +0000

Nice. I just downloaded this article and will read it shortly but I ought to mention that Academic.edu is misspelled several times. You might be able to correct it before Monday ;-P