Academia.edu Raises $11.1M for Open Research Portal

From AllThingsD:

The San Francisco-based company now has 4.5 million registered researchers and 8 million monthly visitors.

From TechCrunch:

[Richard] Price wants to create a different kind of reputation system, taking cues from the follower model that Twitter popularized.
“A core problem for researchers is how to build their brand,” Price said. “To make yourself established in a field, the core way you do that is to share your work.”

From News.com

“The goal is to have every single science PDF ever written available for free on the Internet and to build a network of scientists interacting with those papers that will change the face of peer review,” the company said of its mission. It’s published 1.6 million papers so far.”
–Richard Price

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