“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”

A social networking site is not an open access repository

Have you ever wondered?

 1. “What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”

2. “I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy?

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To shed some light on these and similar questions here is a great discussion around the differences between these platforms and when they should use one, the other, or some combination; and a brief primer on what each service has to offer from the:

OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

At this link:

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/