Monthly Archives: July 2009

Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 31, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 31, 2009: 1. A Case of Insider Trading in Spain (in Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Seven [...]
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Commenting Added to ERPN

Last month, we beta tested abstract “commenting” functionality on all abstracts in our Cognitive Science Network (CSN). With the initial success and positive feedback, we added the functionality to all abstracts in our Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network (ERPN). This feature expands the possibilities and conversations based on scholarly research in the SSRN eLibrary. We [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 24, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 24, 2009: 1. The Unreasonableness of the Patent Office’s ‘Broadest Reasonable Interpretation’ Standard by Dawn-Marie Bey (King & Spalding LLP) and Christopher Anthony Cotropia (University of Richmond School of Law) 2. Distributed Security: A New Model of Law Enforcement [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 17, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 17, 2009: 1. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals by Allen Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law) 2. [...]
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How Do We Make Open Access More Accessible?

In the November 2002 Open Archives Forum’s Interim Review of Organisational Issues, a concern was raised about Europe’s role in adopting Open Archives Initiative’s (OAI) protocols and standards because of “the preponderance of U.S. members, and the dependence on U.S. sources of funding for the OAI.”  This concern appears to have been met head on [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 10, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 10, 2009: 1. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008 by Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset [...]
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Weekly Announcements – July 6, 2009

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Loyola University Chicago School of Law Joins LSN Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Loyola University Chicago School of Law has started a Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Loyola-U-PUB.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Loyola-U-PUB First Issue: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1410172_CMBO.html [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 3, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending July 3, 2009: 1. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008 by Daniel Kaufmann (Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset [...]
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A Beacon for the Future: 21st Century Libraries

When John Palfrey wrote his keynote for this year’s Computer Assisted Legal Instruction’s (CALI) 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing about the legal education revolution, I doubt he included anything about the technological revolution occurring in Iran. However, Palfrey, Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, [...]
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