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Digital Scholarship from the Periphery: Insights from Researchers in Chile on Academia.edu and ResearchGate Cover

Digital Scholarship from the Periphery: Insights from Researchers in Chile on Academia.edu and ResearchGate

By: Rocío Knipp  
Open Access
|May 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.856 | Journal eISSN: 1365-893X
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 3, 2023
Accepted on: Jan 22, 2024
Published on: May 7, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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