1. Academia.edu &
The Future of Science

2. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research
papers
1.8 million users, adding 4,000 a day.

3. Profile
Scientists engaging directly with their audience

4. Analytics
New credibility metrics in science

5. News Feed
Social discovery of research

6. Four things we want to achieve with Academia.edu -
ways we want to re-shape science

7. Instant distribution
Removal of 12 month time-lags

8. Multi-media
Data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, comments

9. Open access
A villager in India should have the same access to the world’s
scientific output as a professor at Harvard

10. More robust and agile Peer Review
Surface opinions from the entire scientific community in real
time, rather than wait 12 months for opinions from 2 people

11. Credibility metrics
Credibility metrics are the fulcrum on which science is going
to pivot

12. Stay in touch!
We’re hiring Engineers
richard@academia.edu
@richardprice100
http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice