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Academia.edu Grows to 175 Million Users While Gathering 32% of the World's Research Papers

February 23, 2022

Academia.edu Raises $23M in Series D Funding

February 23, 2022

Academia.edu and Zimride top San Francisco's recent funding news

April 4, 2019

Academia.edu, a San Francisco-based academic research access platform, raised $16 million in Series C funding

April 1, 2019

Academia.edu Raises $16M in Series C Funding

March 29, 2019

Academia.edu Raises $16M, Launches Mobile App for Researchers

March 28, 2019

Academia.edu Reaches 75 Million User Milestone

March 26, 2019

Academia.edu and Center for Advancing Opportunity Launch Initiative to Celebrate Black History Month

February 20, 2019

A Napster moment for ivory towers

February 17, 2019

Academia.edu's Richard Price: "The end of the paywall"

February 7, 2019

How the Reproducibility Crisis in Academia is Affecting Scientific Research

February 9, 2017

Social network launches bid to get academics chattering about papers online

September 25, 2015

Scientists win when they are social with their work, study shows

May 8, 2015

Incentivizing Peer Review: The Last Obstacle for Open Access Science

July 11, 2014

Open-Access Journal Underdogs Take on Aging Academic Publications

June 13, 2014

Sharing is a way of life for millions on Academia.edu

June 12, 2014

Dylan’s Desk: Watch this multi-billion-dollar industry evaporate overnight

June 6, 2014

'Open science' finds disruptive home in Academia.edu

June 4, 2014

Academia.edu founder on Open Access dreams

May 8, 2014

Scientific Publishing Is Killing Science

February 28, 2014

Publish scientific research faster, get more cures?

February 11, 2014

Microsoft Adds Momentum to “Open Science”

February 1, 2014

A publishing giant goes after the authors of its journals’ papers

January 11, 2014

Elsevier Ramps Up Its War On Access To Knowledge

December 20, 2013

Elsevier’s Research Takedown Notices Fan Out To Startups, Harvard, Individual Academics

December 19, 2013

How one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research

December 19, 2013

Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

December 6, 2013

Posting Your Latest Article? You Might Have to Take It Down

December 6, 2013

Academia.edu slammed with takedown notices from journal publisher Elsevier

December 6, 2013

Academia.edu Crosses 5M Users And Acquires Plasmyd, A Search Engine For Research Papers

October 23, 2013

Academia.edu acquires Plasmyd to prove itself to the academy

October 23, 2013

Academia.edu acquires Plasmyd to bring peer review into the 21st century

October 23, 2013

Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11.1 Million

September 26, 2013

Academia.edu: Scientific Research Available to All (Video)

September 20, 2013

Academia.edu Raises $11.1M for Open Research Portal

September 26, 2013

Riding A New Transparency Wave In Science, Academia.Edu Lets Researchers Share Their Raw Data

May 6, 2013

After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry

February 3, 2013

“In The Studio,” Academia.edu’s Richard Price Is A Founder On A Mission

January 24, 2013

Scientists Seek New Credibility Outside of Established Journals

November 30, 2012

Interview with Richard Price, Academia.edu CEO

October 31, 2012

Academia.Edu Overhauls Profiles As The Onus Falls On Researchers To Manage Their Personal Brands

October 12, 2012

Scholarly sharing site Academia.edu spruces up its profiles to highlight user achievements

October 11, 2012

Academia.edu, a Social Network for Academics and a Free Publishing Platform, May Change Science Research

October 2, 2012

Bijan Sabet on disrupting the gatekeepers, and mobile

September 17, 2012

Who's Reading And Using Scientific Papers? Academia Will Find Out

August 19, 2012

Academia.edu Adds Analytics To Bring Transparency To How Research Spreads

August 17, 2012

Want extra credit? Professors can now track who’s reading on Academia.edu

August 17, 2012

Academia.edu Adds Analytics Dashboard

August 16, 2012

Who's Reading Your Research? Academia.edu Adds Analytics Dashboard So Scholars Can See

August 15, 2012

New Academia.edu Dashboard Shows Real-Time Impact of Research

August 15, 2012

Academia.edu and the Evolution of Peer Review with Richard Price

July 25, 2012

Social Networks for Academics Proliferate, Despite Some Doubts

April 29, 2012

The Future of Science

April 29, 2012

Social Networking for Academics! Consider Joining Academia.edu

April 4, 2012

Academia.edu–Social Media Site for Researchers

March 13, 2012

Independent scholars, web visibility, and Academia.edu

March 13, 2012

The Dangerous “Research Works Act

February 15, 2012

The Future of Peer Review

February 5, 2012

New service for researchers: Academia.edu

January 3, 2012

Academia.edu – $4.5M in Funding, 3M Unique Monthly Visitors – Can They Change Science Publication?

December 11, 2011

Academia.edu raises $4.5 Million for Researcher Social Network

December 1, 2011

Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers

November 30, 2011

Spark Capital Funds Academia.edu to Make Research Social

November 30, 2011

Home Cooked Theory - Academia.edu

June 27, 2011

Digital Networking for Researchers

May 12, 2012

Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics

February 14, 2011

A discussion of academia.edu

February 8, 2011

Academia.edu – Where Scholars Meet

September 17, 2008