[FRIAM] Academia.edu

Wed May 10 12:36:55 EDT 2017

Eric, 

I forgot to ask.  Are the people at Academe as STUPID as the people at R. G.?    I mean rigid, bone-headed,. Unimaginative, slow-witted, and lacking totally in humor and imagination?  

Just asking. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Charles
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 7:26 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Academia.edu

I have been on both Research Gate and Academia for some time. I am not particularly active in either (except for an occasional foray into an R.G. forum). However, it seems evident that my uploaded works receive a wider readership. Proprietary search engines (JSTOR, etc.) are on the outs, and papers easily accessed via Google search and the like are much more likely to be read and cited. Google Scholar searches R.G. and Academia and will pop up a PDF link right next to the search results. 

This is particularly obvious with regards to the professional book reviews I write every year or two. Because the venues for the reviews aren't easy for most to access, I doubt I get more than a handful of readers there. However, because I tend to give the flashy titles, a few have several hundred reads through the websites. That (I hope) helps the authors of the reviewed books more than it helps me, but it speaks strongly to the increased attention it is possible to get for work by virtue of posting on those sites. This has been much, much more effective than posting to a personal website, and takes less upkeep for steady traffic than my academic blog. 

If I was in a field that used ArXiv, and didn't secretly like the idea of lay people and students sometimes reading my work, I wouldn't be on either. But psychology doesn't do ArXiv, and I do secretly like those ideas. 

Our article on MOTH has 62 reads through Research Gate and 4 through Academia (via my upload). Probably it has more reads through JASSS. In contrast, I have an encyclopedia entry about the history of Clark University's psychology department that has 355 reads on Research Gate and 22 through Academia. That is probably far more than have read the work via its published source. My most read article on Academia is a statistical simulation I published during my grad school days, which has over 1,000 reads. Aside from indicating I made a poor career choices by sticking with my love of experimental psychology, that suggest the potential audience, even for highly technical papers, is quite large. 

Best,

Eric

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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Supervisory Survey Statistician

U.S. Marine Corps

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com <mailto:russ.abbott at gmail.com> > wrote:

You might want to consider Zenodo <http://about.zenodo.org/infrastructure/> .

Host institution

Zenodo is hosted by CERN which has existed since 1954 and currently has an experimental programme defined for the next 20+ years. CERN is a memory institution for High Energy Physics and renowned for its pioneering work in Open Access. Organisationally Zenodo is embedded in the IT Department, Collaboration Devices and Applications Group, Digital Repositories Section (IT-CDA-DR).

Zenodo is offered by CERN as part of its mission to make available the results of its work ( <https://council.web.cern.ch/en/content/convention-establishment-european-organization-nuclear-research#2> CERN Convention, Article II, §1).

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Zenodo is developed and supported as a marginal activity, and hosted on top of existing infrastructure and services at CERN, in order to reduce operational costs and rely on existing efforts for High Energy Physics. CERN has some of the world’s top experts in running large scale research data infrastructures and digital repositories that we rely on in order to deliver a trusted digital repository.

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On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 10:23 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com> > wrote:

According to  this..

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Santa-Fe-New-Mexico.html

..there are about 8037 people in Santa Fe with a household income above $100k/year.   Baltimore has a 3% tax.  D.C. has a 8.5% income tax for income over $40k/year.

https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246

Mimic that, only taxing just those with > $100k incomes, and Santa Fe would bring in $25-$70 million dollars a year.  Tax 5% across the board and it would be nearly $130 million (given the 2015 data).   

Throw in some property tax for the richer folks, maybe could haul in $150 or $200 million a year.  

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 10:48 AM

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Academia.edu

Here's what I think: Nick should start on his creation of Friam Threads, captured snippets or gists, and post them on Medium. Then once a year, we'll choose which ones could lead to nifty papers and publish them.

I think it would be fun!

   -- Owen

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