Wednesday 1 October 2008

Social networking site - Academia.edu launched

Dr Richard Price a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford has launched Academic.edu a social networking site for academics and researchers.
Academia.edu
- Displays academics, faculty members and post-doctoral students around the world in a 'tree' format, according to which university / department they are affiliated with.
- Enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field - the latest people, papers, and talks.

Some of the professors on the site include:

- Richard Dawkins http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
- Stephen Hawking http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Noam Chomsky http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky