[ECOLOG-L] We are all welcome on Academia.edu

[William Silvert]

I had a bit of correspondence with Richard Price at Academia.edu who assures 
me that the concerns about some scientists not being eligible to join is not 
valid. Here are some parts of our correspondence, which I have rearranged to 
make it more coherent, and added some comments in square brackets:

"We do encourage researchers in government labs to sign up. They can add 
their government lab as a university. Los Alamos National Laboratory is on 
Academia.edu at http://lanl.academia.edu/. [The Portuguese fisheries lab was 
added yesterday]

"We are going to make it clearer on the registration form that other 
institutions are welcomed too.

"Anyone is welcome to join as an independent researcher. Currently they have 
to type in 'Independent Researcher' into the University box on the sign up 
form."

He also made it clear that they are revising their forms to make these 
provisions clearer.

Bill Silvert