Social Sharing
- Emailing a link or PDF to colleagues.
- Posting a link or PDF on a personal website or institutional website.
- Archiving a version of the content in an institutional repository.
- Posting a link or PDF in a social sharing site such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, or SSRN.
Sharing is important. We support responsible sharing.
Content sharing is a natural and vital part of research. It helps to disseminate and raise awareness about new findings and to stimulate discussion and further progress.
Social sharing is the use of social sharing sites to share content widely: it makes sharing more efficient and effective. Social sharing sites can also help researchers to build their reputations and to connect with other researchers.
Social sharing is developing rapidly, with new and improved online services to enable content discovery and access. Researchers are sharing more and more, but content is not always shared in a responsible manner. We are positively engaged with social sharing and want to support it without undermining the publication of high quality books and journals upon which research and learning depends.
Frequently asked questions on content sharing
Cambridge University Press and ResearchGate FAQs
The last few years have seen academic publishers engaging with scholarly collaboration networks in various ways, trying to balance their popularity with authors and researchers against concerns over large-scale copyright infringement. Cambridge University Press, recently signed an agreement with ResearchGate to foster responsible sharing - see our joint statement here. These FAQs work to explain the approach that we have taken.