<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am Anamika Dasgupta, a doctoral candidate at the Palmer School of Library
and Information Studies, Long Island University, New York, USA. I am inviting
you to participate in an anonymous survey which is a part of my dissertation
research, designed to investigate communication patterns of scholars using
Academic Social Networking sites, their motivations for using them, and its
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<div>To be eligible for the study, you must be a user of Academia.edu and have
research interest in one of the following disciplines: Physics, Linguistics,
Sociology. Your identity as a participant will remain confidential.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Please click on the following link to take this anonymous survey, which
should take less than 5 minutes to complete: <b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGK65XS">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGK65XS</a><br><br>
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<div>If you have any questions or concerns, please email <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Anamika.Dasgupta@my.liu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:Anamika.Dasgupta@my.liu.edu">Anamika.Dasgupta@my.liu.edu</a>
(doctoral candidate) or <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Qiping.Zhang@liu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:Qiping.Zhang@liu.edu">Qiping.Zhang@liu.edu</a>
(Faculty adviser).<br>
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Thank you!</div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></div></div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>