Hi Code4Libbers,

Hope everyone is enjoying the conference.  I am sad I was unable to
make it but I like what I have been able to catch of the livestream.
Anyway, I wanted to get some community thoughts on an issue I have
been noticing lately.  I have run into an assortment of faculty that
are convinced the Research Gate should replace the institutional
repository at their schools.  Being the the repository guy at where I
work this is rather disconcerting since they do very different things.
 Research Gate is a form of social media service, whereas the
repositories are all about preservation and access.  I have tried to
articulate this point to them without much success.  As such I wanted
to consult the collective brilliance of Code4Lib to see if anyone else
has also run into this or have thoughts on how to respond.  This may
seem like a trivial issue, but it has come up enough that I am
starting to get concerned for the safety the repository.  So any
thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks for your time and hope everyone
is having a good conference.

Matt Sherman