Monthly Archives: November 2009

Weekly Announcements – November 30, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Seattle University, Texas Tech, and University of Warwick, Schools of Law Join LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Seattle University School of Law, Texas Tech School of Law, and University of Warwick School of Law have each started a Law School Research [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 27, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 27, 2009: 1. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers by Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt University School of Law) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Underwater and [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 23, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Seattle University, Texas Tech, and University of Warwick, Schools of Law Join LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Seattle University School of Law, Texas Tech School of Law, and University of Warwick School of Law have each started a Law School Research [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 20, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 20, 2009: 1. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers by Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt University School of Law) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Equity Risk [...]
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SSRN’s iPhone App, iSSRN, is Available

iSSRN, our free iPhone App, was released recently.  It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world. iSSRN is available from Apple‘s iTunes store. iSSRN allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to search over 250,000 papers and read the full text of the [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 16, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Brown University Joins Law Research Centers Papers; William Mitchell Upgrades Its Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that Brown University Advanced Research Institute in Law, Social Thought and Global Governance has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). [...]
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CrossRef Creating Impressive Tools

Geoff Bilder, CrossRef‘s Director of Strategic Initiatives, and others discussed Trust during their CrossRef Annual Meeting presentations earlier this week and I’ll discuss more on this topic next week.  What I was most impressed with in Bilder’s talk was the list of new projects, such as TOI DOI (a DOI shortener). I have often thought [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 13, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 13, 2009: 1. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers by Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt University School of Law) 2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 3. Governance Matters [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 9, 2009

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 4 New Sponsored LSN Subject Matter eJournals We are pleased to announce four new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals under Law, Brain & Behavior Journals. Law & Evolution, Law & Neuroscience, Law & Prosociality, and Law, Cognition, & Decisionmaking, are sponsored by Indiana University [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – November 6, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending November 6, 2009: 1. Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Peter B. Hirtle (Cornell University Library) and Emily Hudson (University of Melbourne – Law School) and Andrew T. Kenyon (University of Melbourne [...]
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Share SSRN through Facebook and Twitter

We recently expanded the Share functionality on the top of our abstract pages by adding Facebook and Twitter to the Digg, Delicious, and CiteULike options.  Our community asked for the ability to easily post or tweet about research that was important to them and has already created thousands of SSRN links on Facebook and Twitter. [...]
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