Elsevier purchase SSRN: social scientists face questions over whether centralised repository is in their interests

Leeper, Thomas J. (2016) Elsevier purchase SSRN: social scientists face questions over whether centralised repository is in their interests. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (18 May 2016). Website.

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The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), an online repository for uploading preprint articles and working papers, has been recently acquired by publishing giant Elsevier. Thomas Leeper looks at what this purchase, and for-profit academic services more generally, mean for the scholarly community. Many regular users may not be aware that SSRN has been run by a privately held corporation since its founding in 1994.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2016 LSE Impact of Social Sciences © CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2016 08:06
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 00:29
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66734

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