The document discusses two social media sites for academics: Academia.edu and ResearchGate. Academia.edu was launched in 2008 and allows users to share papers, view analytics on paper downloads and profile views, and follow other researchers. ResearchGate was founded in 2008 by physicians and a computer scientist and has over 5 million members. It functions as a social network for scientists, allowing them to share papers, ask and answer questions, find colleagues in their fields, and view profiles of researchers with similar interests. Both sites aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing of research among academic communities.

1. Presented to,
Dr.Shafiq ur Rehman
Presented by,
Aasia Aslam
Mphil1401
Department of Information Management, University of
the Punjab Lahore

2. CONTENTS
 What is social Media?
 History
 Features
 Types of social Media sites

3. What is social Media
“Social networking is the grouping of
individuals into specific groups, like small rural
communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if
you will. Although social networking is
possible in person, especially in the workplace,
universities, and high schools, it is most
popular online”.
(Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

4. History
•Early social media on the World Wide Web began in the
form of generalized online communities in 1994.
•New social networking methods were developed by the end
of the 1990s, and many sites began to develop more advanced
features for users to find and manage friends.
• Orkut became the first social networking service in Brazil in
2007).
•Facebook, launched in 2004, became the largest social
networking site in the world in early 2009.

5. Types of Social Media
 Face book
 Twitter
 Academia.edu
 Research Gate
 LinkedIn
 Google Plus
 My Space
 Orkut
 Flicker

6. We will discuss the following two,
 Academia.edu
 Research Gate

7. Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a social media website for academics.
It was launched in September 2008 and the site now has
over 16 million registered users as of 2015. The
platform can be used to share papers, monitor their
impact, and follow the research in a particular field.
Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price.
Specifications:
 Sharing of research papers
 Analytics on profiles and papers
 Follow field relevant people

8. Start

12. Academia.edu
 Launched September 2008
 Type Private
 Headquarters San Francisco, California
 Area served Worldwide
 Founder Richard Price
 Type of site Platform for sharing
 Registration Free
 Available in English
 Current status Active
 Followers 17,118,671 (till jan.2015)

13. Reception
 Academia.edu gives academics a "powerful, efficient way to
distribute their research "and that it "will let researchers keep
tabs on how many people are reading their articles with
specialized analytics tools", and "also does very well in Google
search results."Academia.edu seems to reflect a combination of
social networking norms and academic norms.

14. Domain name
 Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning
and so under current standards would not qualify for the EDU top
level domain.
 The domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999, prior to
the regulations which required .edu domain names to be held by
accredited post-secondary institutions. All .edu domain names
registered prior to 2001 were grandfathered in and not made subject
to the regulation of being an accredited post-secondary institution.

15. Research Gate
 Research Gate ResearchGate is a social networking site for
scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer
questions, and dedicated to science and research, Connect,
collaborate and discover scientific publications, jobs and
conferences. All for free.
 It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that
collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the
world was no easy task.

16. Research Gate
 Founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören
Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher.
ResearchGate today has more than 5 million members.
 Features:
Profile
Messages
Finding friends
only for researchers and scientists
Follow
private chat room
score

22. Corporate history
 From 2009 to 2011, the site grew from 25,000 users to
more than 1 million. The company grew from 12
employees in 2011 to 70 in 2012.
 ResearchGate was founded in 2008 by a virologist and
computer scientist, Ijad Madisch. It started in Boston, but
moved to Berlin, Germany shortly afterwards.
 According to The New York Times the website began with very
few features, then developed over time based on input from
scientists. Adoption of the site grew rapidly.

23. Features
 The New York Times described the site as a mashup of
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It has many of the features
that are typical among social network sites, such as user
profiles, messages that can be public or private, and methods
for finding other users with similar interests. It differs from
other social networks in that it is designed for researchers and
scientists.
 Conversation strings focus on a research interest or paper and
you can "follow" a research interest, in addition to following
individual users. It has a blogging feature for users to write
short reviews on peer-reviewed articles.

24.  ResearchGate indexes self-published information on user
profiles to suggest members to connect with those that
have similar interests.
 When a user posts a question, it is fielded to scientists that
have identified on their user profile that they have a
relevant expertise.
 It also has private chat rooms where scientists can share
data, edit shared documents, or discuss confidential topics.

25.  As of 2013, it has 2.6 million users. ResearchGate's largest
user-base is in Europe and North America, and in jan.2015
it has more than 6 million users.
 Most of ResearchGate's users are involved in medicine or
biology,though it also has participants from engineering,
computer science and agricultural sciences among others.

26.  Participants can get a higher "score" which ranks their
"scientific reputation" by providing popular answers to
questions and other metrics.
 Members are encouraged to share raw data and failed
experiment results.
 ResearchGate does not require peer reviewer fees. Since
accessing documents usually requires an account,
ReseachGate is not considered to be open access.

27. Reception
 As of 2009, according to BusinessWeek, ResearchGate was
influential in promoting innovation in developing
countries by connecting scientists from those nations with
their peers in industrialized nations.
 BusinessWeek said the website had become popular largely
due to its "navigation" and "ease of use".
 It also noted that ResearchGate had been involved in "a
string" of notable cross-country collaborations between
scientists that led to substantive developments.

28.  A paper published in the The International Information &
Library Review conducted a survey with 160 respondents
and found that out of those using social networking "for
academic purposes", Facebook and ResearchGate were the
most popular at the University of Delhi.

29. Thank You