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Reflecting, Honoring, and Disseminating our Stories

On May 27, 1892 in Memphis, Tennessee, a white mob destroyed a local newspaper named the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight run partly by a…
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Kai Daniels
Feb 15, 2019
Reforming and Honoring African American Academia

Reforming and Honoring African American Academia

“A historically black what?” was the common refrain from my Bay Area high school friends when I told them I would be attending Norfolk…
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Michael Marable
Feb 15, 2019
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Academia Introduces a Premium Account

Academia Introduces a Premium Account

Academia’s mission is to get every academic paper ever written on the internet, available for free, and to develop a more rigorous and…
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Richard Price
Mar 8, 2017
Does Google Scholar know about your Academia Mentions?

Does Google Scholar know about your Academia Mentions?

Last year, we launched a new premium feature called Mentions, which notifies you whenever papers uploaded to Academia.edu mention your…
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The Academia Team
Jan 4, 2017
How do people find your papers?

How do people find your papers?

Academia Introduces a new Premium Feature
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The Academia Team
Dec 20, 2016
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The Academia Team
Nov 22, 2016

Which universities have the most Academia users?

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The Academia Team
Oct 24, 2016

What’s a ‘Mention’ on Academia?

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the pace of discovery. We’ve added a new premium feature called…

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The Academia Team
Jul 13, 2016

Academia Introduces ‘Reasons For Downloading’

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the pace of the world’s research. We’ve added a new feature called ‘Reasons For Downloading’ to improve communication between authors and readers. The way it works is that readers can leave messages for authors…

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The Academia Team
Jul 7, 2015

Academia.edu, Citations, and Open Science in Action

On May 8, we announced the results of a year-long study of articles posted to Academia.edu. In the study, we asked whether posting an article to Academia.edu was associated with more citations. We found — after controlling for a number of…

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The Academia Team
Feb 2, 2015

Academia.edu passes 10 million users

Originally published at blog.academia.edu on June 3, 2014

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The Academia Team
Nov 18, 2014

Introducing co-authored papers.

Academia.edu now supports multiple authors for uploaded papers

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The Academia Team
Oct 21, 2014

Your feed just got better.

You may have noticed some changes to the Academia.edu newsfeed, which we began updating early last week. The…

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