Scholars Criticize Academia.edu Proposal to Charge Authors for Recommendations - The Chronicle of Higher Education

" ... It turns out that other professors on Twitter had a lot to say, and none of it supported the idea that Academia.edu — a social network for researchers to share academic work — would begin to charge for consideration by its editors. The message went viral overnight and spawned a storm of back-and-forth conversations with Mr. Akil, with many critics saying such a proposal would be very 'problematic' at the least ..."