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24 Jan
2016
24 Jan
'16
2:02 p.m.
Our friend Muthu Madhan alerted me to this article on why institutional repositories are far superior to social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate. A social networking site is not an open access repository https://misslibrarygrrrl.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/a-social-networking-site-i... Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009