Timeline for Is it weird to display ads on an academic website?
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| Feb 10, 2021 at 21:17 | answer | added | vsz | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 20:52 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 6:02 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | This is actually quite common! - but only when the web-hosting platform is displaying the ads, not the academic. For example, in Australia, many academics use Wordpress for their academic website. If they don't pay for the premium version you can occasionally see adds on their site. The ads are usually hard to notice though. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1359291008060645376 | ||
| Feb 9, 2021 at 23:14 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @Barmar Lots of academics have personal academic sites that are for their profile as an academic, not for them as a person. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | user128581 | @Barmar Springer journals (and probably some other publishers too) allow authors to post the accepted version of a green-open-access paper on a personal website immediately the paper appears in the journal, but make the authors wait a year to post it on an institutional website. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | Barmar | If it's not hosted by the institute, why would it be considered an "academic" website? It sounds like it's just a personal website of someone who just happens to be an academic. Why would your profession have any impact on what you do in your personal life? | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | user128581 | Not quite a direct answer to the question, but I noticed, a couple of years ago, that Cambridge University Press journals contract out their web-based communications with authors and referees, to Clarivate Analytics trading as Manuscript Central, and that the terms of use of that website insist on allowing the setting of cookies for targeted advertising. Interestingly, the relevant clause appears to be a CUP-specific additional clause, not part of Manuscript Central's default terms of use. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:33 | answer | added | user133776 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:22 | answer | added | Saquib | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | cbeleites | In some legislations, e.g. Germany, having ads on your website makes the website commercial and that leads to certain legal duties. The money generated by the ads may not be worth while considering the added trouble to keep up with your legal duties. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 12:41 | comment | added | GoodDeeds | For a simple static website (which is typically sufficient for a personal web page), there are good quality free solutions like GitHub pages available now that quite popular for faculty pages from what I have seen. So the question of covering costs may not even arise. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 10:29 | comment | added | Hans Olsson | I thought that many in that situation would instead host their web-pages/blog/videos on a service that takes out ads automatically, similarly as this site, researchgate, linkedin etc. Having your own website seems to take too much work. That also shifts the question from getting paid for ads to avoiding paying by having ads; which many may feel is more "ok" | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 6:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 9, 2021 at 1:50 | vote | accept | padawan | ||
| Feb 9, 2021 at 0:27 | history | edited | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 23:14 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:58 | comment | added | padawan | @Buffy Just out of curiosity. I have seen many websites relevant or irrelevant which take ads, but none of the academic websites. I wouldn't do it, but I also wouldn't see it as "weird" per se if I see someone do it. | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:50 | answer | added | Bryan Krause♦ | timeline score: 62 | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:49 | comment | added | Buffy | Why the question? Have you seen such or are you contemplating doing this? | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:45 | answer | added | Azor Ahai -him- | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:25 | history | asked | padawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |