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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