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SSRN Celebrates 20 Years
It is hard to believe SSRN began two decades ago. And today, SSRN has become something beyond our dreams. Mike Jensen shared his thoughts on this milestone and our commitments to all of you. In light of our anniversary and we thought we’d share wear the love. Head over to our Facebook page or Twitter [...]
Happening: SPARC and UKSG
I’m at the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting (#sparc2012) in Kansas City this week where John Willbanks (Kauffman Foundation, Creative Commons) is the keynote along with many others - discussing how to expand the dissemination of scholarly research and open access. Later this month, I’ll present at the UKSG Annual Conference (#uksglive) in Glasgow. In it’s 35th [...]
SSRN Q&A: John Peters (GSE Research)
Sustainability is one of the hottest areas of scholarly research, and SSRN’s newest research network. GSE Research sponsors our Sustainability Research Policy Network. I’ve known its founder John Peters for a few years and recently caught up with him to ask a few questions about the what, how, and why of sustainability and working with SSRN. Q: [...]
ALA Midwinter ’12
I am headed to the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Dallas this weekend. There will be thousands of library and information media industry leaders sharing their views and exhibiting their companies (#ALAMW12). If you are attending and want to get together to talk about SSRN or scholarly communications in general, please let me know. Safe Travels, [...]
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50 Million Downloads
SSRN delivered its 50,000,000 full-text download! On 12/26/11 a major milestone occurred when Jan Bena, UBC Professor downloaded “Economic Nationalism in Mergers & Acquisitions“ by Isil Erel and Serdar Dinc. It was the 50 millionth full text PDF delivered from the SSRN eLibrary. Congratulate Jan if you see him because he will receive free subscriptions to all the SSRN [...]
SSRN Attending JISC & Online Information Meetings in London
There are a lot of people changing the world of scholarly communications and I’m looking forward to the 2011 JISC Geospatial Innovation Meeting (Joint Information Systems Committee) at Ravensborough College and Online Information 2011 at the Olympia Exhibition Center. Both of these meetings will highlight important new ways to use data and other tools to create innovative research. [...]
Open Access Week: SSRN at MIT
Open Access Week, now entering its fifth year, is just around the corner. It is a global event which promotes the benefits of open access publishing via free, immediate and online access of scholarly research (#OAW2011). I will be celebrating the week by speaking at MIT on 10/26. I will discuss how scholarly communications has changed in recent years and the [...]
Remixing Scholarly Research
Kirby Ferguson is a quirky New York-based filmmaker with an interesting idea. He wanted to show copying was often part of the creative process by providing popular examples of remixed content. The research and examples from different types of media have been aggregated into an extremely well done, short video series titled Everything Is [...]
Public Knowledge Project Conference 2011
I’m flying to Berlin, Germany this weekend for the third international PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (#pkp2011) and looking forward to presenting on SSRN’s Open Access approach and the benefits of article level metrics. The PKP conference attendees are a broad group of publishers and others interested in Open Source software, new publishing models and providing greater [...]
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Searle Center “Internet Search and Innovation” Conference Keynote
I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote, Searching and Accessing the Right Content, in the Right Place at the Right Time, tonight at the Searle Center’s Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation at Northwestern Law School. The Searle Center runs several conferences each year related to the impact of laws and regulations on [...]
Michael C. Jensen Delivers Georgetown’s MSB Commencement
Michael C. Jensen, SSRN‘s Chairman and Professor Emeritus gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business on Saturday May 21. Jensen spoke to the class about integrity, authenticity and being committed to something bigger than oneself – topics drawn from work with his co-author, Werner Erhard . Jensen [...]
Who’s Who? ORCID and the Author Disambiguation Issue
I’m speaking at the ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) Meeting at Harvard on May 18th. ORCID is a global initiative tackling the author name ambiguity issue, with over 200 participating organizations including academic institutions, publishers, societies, corporate, non-profit and government organizations. Author names create a lot problems for repositories like SSRN. We often find errors [...]
Gordon to Speak at AACSB ICAM 2011
I am looking forward to speaking on Saturday at this year’s Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Conference and Annual Meeting, in New York this weekend (4/29-5/1). It will be a great opportunity to talk with several business schools and discuss the scholarly continuum, current research trends and the future (and beyond) of [...]
SSRN’s CiteReader Project Update
Last week we released a project update to our reference and citation technology, CiteReader. CiteReader allows readers to view the references within a paper submitted to SSRN and the citations from other papers in the SSRN eLibrary, making it possible for users to easily go backwards and forward in the literature. Here is SSRN Chairman, [...]
New Thoughts on Parenting
While I was at the Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum, Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University gave me an advance copy of his book “Selfish Reason to Have More Kids.” Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is a thought provoking look into the nature vs. nurture argument with a refreshing and interesting research [...]
TODAY: Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum – Stream Live
I’m in Kansas City today looking forward to attending the Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum. I met some great thinkers and friends at the inaugural conference in ’09 and I am sure this year will only be more of the same. Stream the presentations live today (Friday, April 1 2011) from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 [...]
Mobility, the Future and Your Business – Tomorrow 10AM
I will be one of three guests speaking tomorrow morning on the “Eyes on the Future” radio show (3.4.2o11) at 10AM. We will be discussing all things mobility, apps, how they can help grow business and the access customers can gain. I invite you to stream the discussion online or if you’re in Rochester, NY [...]
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