19.2881, FYI: 'Tree' of Academics Launches: Academia.edu

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Subject: 19.2881, FYI: 'Tree' of Academics Launches: Academia.edu

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Date: 22-Sep-2008
From: Richard Price < richard.price at all-souls.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: 'Tree' of Academics Launches: Academia.edu

 

	
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:09:09
From: Richard Price [richard.price at all-souls.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: 'Tree' of Academics Launches: Academia.edu

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Hi all,

I'm a Fellow at All Souls College Oxford, where I recently finished my PhD
on the philosophy of perception. 

I've just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things:

- It displays academics around the world in a 'tree' format, according to
what university/department they are affiliated with. 
- It enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their
field, people and papers. 

My hope for the site is that it will list every academic - Faculty members,
Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world.  

It's gaining some traction - Noam Chomsky is on there
(http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky) and also some other professors are
such as Richard Dawkins  (http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins) and
Stephen Hawking (http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking).

I'm trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you have a
minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the
tree. If your department/university is not there, you can add it/them by
clicking on the arrows coming out of the department/university boxes. 

And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. 

Many thanks,

Richard

Dr. Richard Price,
Prize Fellow,
All Souls College, 
Oxford,
OX1 4AL
richard.price at all-souls.ox.ac.uk 

http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice 



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