www.academia.edu is a site for graduate students and academics, which has just launched. It allows graduate students and academics who don’t know HTML to create academic webpages. To create a webpage, you just fill in a few fields, upload any papers, and press ‘create’. The site is totally free. Check out this sample academic webpage to get a better idea of what results might look like.
There are also discussion areas of the site for various fields, and there
is a primitive paper-tracking engine that tracks the latest papers uploaded to the web in various fields.
The site was set up by a fellow of All Souls College for the academic community – any feedback to richard@academia.edu is very much appreciated. We'd like to thank him for his generosity!