(9 November 2017) A nonprofit scholarly networking and publishing platform is being planned as an alternative to for-profit platforms such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu.
The platform, called ScholarlyHub, will be member-run, but first its team must raise 500,000 euros ($579,705) to build it.
The project is led by Guy Geltner, a professor of medieval history at the University of Amsterdam, who once was an avid user of Academia.edu, but who said he developed concerns about how his work or metadata collected on him might be used by for-profit companies.
Inside Higher Education has the story.
