Why move from Academia.edu to SocArXiv.org? | Michael Oman-Reagan - Academia.edu

"In the social sciences and humanities, we've never had a central repository for material like this, and I've always felt it was a gap in our disciplines. It prevents us from learning about the newest work regularly, consistently, and easily, and from getting feedback and interacting with a widerrange of colleagues beyond our own networks, and from sharing our work with science journalistswho might report on it, with the public, and with scholars around the world who don't have database access. Most journals will allow you to post a pre-print version of a published article, ifthey don't allow you to post the final print version. Many of us have wanted to share both working papers and pre-prints, and we've done it here and there.

We have mostly relied on stop gaps, like Academia.edu, and others, where we could share thesedocuments, and see the work of others. Some universities have repositories, but again, eachuniversity has a different repository.

SocArXiv finally offers a serious alternative. And it isn't just for social science - it offers the potentialof interdisciplinary interactions because it's a repository for Arts, Humanities, Education, Law, andSocial Sciences."