<div dir="ltr"><div>A social network has something called a 'social graph'[1] which underpins the way it handles relationships between users of the platform based on some interest. Both academia and research gate operates in that manner and it is their main use case.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_graph">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_graph</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 September 2016 at 13:51, Gibson, Hilton <<a href="mailto:hgibson@sun.ac.za">hgibson@sun.ac.za</a>> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hgibson@sun.ac.za" target="_blank">hgibson@sun.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thats odd... why do they classify academia and research gate as social networks?</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [IRTalk] A social network is not an open access repository</font>
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<h1><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/" target="_blank">http://osc.<wbr>universityofcalifornia.edu/<wbr>2015/12/a-social-networking-<wbr>site-is-not-an-open-access-<wbr>repository/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></h1>
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