This is an event announcement asking a very good question (which is why I am running it). My papers are also listed on Academia.edu (and also on ResearchGate, which is the same sort of model) but I find it very difficult to access other people's papers even when they're uploaded - the site demands that I be logged in before allowing me to download. That's not how open access works. So I don't actively contribute (they harvest my papers from other sources, including NRC's NPARC repository). I don't mind that it depends on free contributions from academics - most of the internet depends on that, why should this site be any different? I do mind that it restricts access to these contributions, and acts like it owns the papers. (Please not that I do not run event announcements in OLDaily; this is an exception.)
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