Academia.edu lists more than 8,400 papers for download on rare-earth elements, their locations and their characteristics.
A major source of information on REE.
In the early days, what mattered most of all was growth: growth in users and papers uploaded. In the first few months, we were growing at a linear rate. Some days 37 users would join, the next day 42, the next day 38. We made it to 50,000 users a year later, and someone posted on Facebook “Congratulations; here’s to 500,000 users.” Richard remembers thinking “wow, that is a lot. At a linear rate, that is going to take 10x the amount of time it has taken so far.”
We started to figure out exponential growth, and we got to 500,000 users, and then quickly to 1 million users. Today 215 million users have joined Academia.edu, and around 140,000 people join Academia.edu each day.
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Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, had the idea for the company when finishing his PhD at Oxford in philosophy. As Richard was finishing his PhD, he decided he wanted to have a homepage where he could say “this is who I am; this is what I have been working on; here are my papers.” At the time, Oxford offered a few megabytes of space for personal websites, and you had to write your own HTML, and FTP files to the server yourself. Richard thought “there should be a one-click way of creating a homepage, and uploading papers. Having a homepage shouldn’t require technical ability.” Richard asked a few of his fellow graduate students, and they felt the same way.
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