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> 1) The advantage over the personal homepage is that more people will see it. Would a video get more views on your blog or on a video sharing site with lots of
by simonster 14y ago
> 1) The advantage over the personal homepage is that more people will see it. Would a video get more views on your blog or on a video sharing site with lots of content where people went to find content like that?
In the world of Google Scholar, this isn't true. Google Scholar indexes scientific papers and aggregates PDF links, without regard for what website the PDFs came from. If no one cites your paper and it's not in a journal I follow, I probably won't read it anyway. If I am sufficiently interested, when I search Google Scholar, the PDF link on your personal website will be as accessible as a PDF link anywhere else. (It may even be more accessible. If, as others have suggested, Academia.edu doesn't let you download PDFs without registration, then PDFs uploaded to Academia.edu probably don't get indexed by Google Scholar.)
- benl 14y agoPapers uploaded to Academia definitely do get indexed by Google. And we show the full text of the paper inline on the page too, so the text is right there after a user clicks through from the search result.
- simonster 14y agoYes, I just checked this. They get indexed by Google, but as HTML. There is no PDF link because it's behind a registration-wall, which is still a good reason to put the PDF on your personal homepage or arXiv instead.