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Academics are beginning to descend from their ivory towers to make their research more accessible to the public. With the advent of academic social networks, this will be a lot easier. According to an article on GigaOM<\/a>, \u201cApart from connecting people, ResearchGate also lets researchers treat their profiles as personal webpages for the purposes of republishing papers they have written.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Online<\/a>As a generation of college graduates who grew up using social media enters post-graduate programs, the use of academic social networks will grow. Besides promoting collaboration, these sites make it easier for academics to disseminate their publications and share their research. The days of tramping through the aisles of some musty university library looking for an obscure dissertation are ending.<\/p>\n

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By providing Free Student Licenses<\/a> and Free Academic Licenses<\/a>, Sogolytics hopes to give students and teachers another valuable research tool. Besides an intuitive interface, Sogolytics\u2019s online survey software<\/a> features a powerful report module, fosters collaboration and makes it easy to publish and share results.<\/p>\n

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While most academics aren\u2019t abandoning the ivory tower, it\u2019s only a matter of time. Young researchers will increasingly use social media to share their research with each other and the public alike. Although there\u2019s no academic equivalent to Facebook yet, I can\u2019t wait to see a status that reads, \u201cTotally just invented a quantum computer!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academics are beginning to descend from their ivory towers to make their research more accessible to the public. With the advent of academic social networks, this will be a lot easier. According to an article on GigaOM, \u201cApart from connecting people, ResearchGate also lets researchers treat their profiles as personal webpages for the purposes of republishing papers they have written.\u201d As a generation of college graduates who grew up using social media enters post-graduate programs, the use of academic social networks will grow. Besides promoting collaboration, these sites make it easier for academics to disseminate their publications and share their research. The days of tramping through the aisles of some musty university library looking for an obscure dissertation are ending. By providing Free Student Licenses and Free Academic Licenses, Sogolytics hopes to give students and teachers another valuable research tool. Besides an intuitive interface, Sogolytics\u2019s online survey software features a powerful report module, fosters collaboration and makes it easy to publish and share results. While most academics aren\u2019t abandoning the ivory tower, it\u2019s only a matter of time. Young researchers will increasingly use social media to share their research with each other and the public alike. Although there\u2019s no academic equivalent to Facebook yet, I can\u2019t wait to see a status that reads, \u201cTotally just invented a quantum computer!\u201d \u201cLike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,256,288,60,289],"yoast_head":"\nFacebook for the Ivory Tower Crowd - Sogolytics Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Students can now publish their research surveys on Facebook and other social media channels using Sogolytics's Free Academic License.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/facebook-for-the-ivory-tower-crowd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook for the Ivory Tower Crowd - 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