It seems that there is a rising awareness of platforms and data ownership of late.

In particular, there is a call to abandon Academia.edu as it is unclear what they are doing with the data and documents that are being uploaded and disseminated through the site.

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/01/23/dear-scholars-delete-your-account-at-academia-edu/#45b5c5fe2ee0
• http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/open-access-academia-edu-and-why-im-all-in-on-zenodo-org/

There are a couple of platforms that are more open, https://zenodo.org and Humanities Commons and https://opencontext.org/