Social Media for Academics

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I.1. Facebook status xxv

2.1. AcademiaMap.com interface 25

2.2. Google + circles, a feature that allows users to manually organize their contacts into groups 27

2.3. ResearchGate: recommendation page of researchers with similar research 29

2.4. ResearchGate: topic page on Open Source Scientific Software (OSSS) 30

2.5. Academia.edu: profile page 31

2.6. Academia.edu: visitors’ statistics dashboard 32

2.7. rDmap for discovering collaborators and potential supervisors 34

3.1. Digital scholarship: be online or be irrelevant 40

3.2. Using hangouts for collaborative writing 44

3.3. Google Docs as a means for team writing, editing and commenting 46

4.1. Timeline of the release of online academic search engines ...