twitter @ ssrn- So, how much material is really transferred via BitTorrent & what is its economic impact on #copyright? Read http://t.co/ieDEykIc February 8, 2012So, how much material is really transferred via BitTorrent & what is its economic impact on #copyright? Read http://t.co/ieDEykIc […]bassesq (emily maruja bass)
- Do state & local govts lose #copyright or contrib 2 infgmt by providing copies of govt records 2 public? Read http://t.co/ZcJYvktr February 8, 2012Do state & local govts lose #copyright or contrib 2 infgmt by providing copies of govt records 2 public? Read http://t.co/ZcJYvktr […]bassesq (emily maruja bass)
- @drschweitzer Seen this new SSRN working paper on the political economy of urban land use? Abstract is very promising. http://t.co/xReYmvyw February 8, 2012@drschweitzer Seen this new SSRN working paper on the political economy of urban land use? Abstract is very promising. http://t.co/xReYmvyw […]PMcFerrin (Peter McFerrin)
- Shld "willful blindness," developed in the #patent context, apply in #copyright & #trademark contexts as well? http://t.co/wqNgaHJ9 February 8, 2012Shld "willful blindness," developed in the #patent context, apply in #copyright & #trademark contexts as well? http://t.co/wqNgaHJ9 […]bassesq (emily maruja bass)
- Lots of interesting perspectives on digital content being shared at #iconf12 February 8, 2012Lots of interesting perspectives on digital content being shared at #iconf12 […]SSRN (SSRN)
- So, how much material is really transferred via BitTorrent & what is its economic impact on #copyright? Read http://t.co/ieDEykIc February 8, 2012
Category Archives: Conferences and Presentations
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged economists, legal scholars, searle center, searle northwestern, SSRN Links Leave a comment
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 [...]
Also posted in President's Notes Tagged JISC, London, Ravensborough College, Ravensbourne, scholarly publishing Leave a comment
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 [...]
Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics(2)
PIRUS2 (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) is a cooperative project involving publishers and repositories determined to develop standards and processes that will enable open usage statistics. I will be presenting about SSRN’s view on article level metrics at the PIRUS2 seminar this week in London. I am also looking forward to learning about the [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, What's new Tagged librarians, libraries, Open Access, publishers, repositories, repository managers, research managers, research outputs, usage statistics 1 Comment
International Conference on Business Research 2011
Image via Wikipedia I will be a Key Guest and deliver the inaugural address later this week at the International Conference on Business Research (ICBR) at the SRM University in Tami Nadu, India. The event is being organized by SRM’s School of Management where folks will be sharing discussions on emerging research in business management [...]
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Modern Finance – Past, Present and Future, 2010
I’m speaking at the Chicago Booth School of Business on Thursday, 4 November 2010 for the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Forum 2010. Jason Zweig author, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal will moderate the panel. The panel will also include Rodney Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for the CFA Institute and Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged Athens University of Economics, Center for Research in Security Prices, CFA Institute, chicago booth, CRSP, CRSP Forum 2010, daniel giamouridis, Gregg Gordon, jason zweig, rodney sullivan, SSRN Links, Wall Street Journal Leave a comment
Open Access
It’s Open Access Week. OAW is an international gathering of the minds focused on creating awareness of free, immediate and online access of scholarly research. I will finish celebrating the week at the University at Buffalo tomorrow (Friday, 10/22) with a presentation – Critical Mass is Critical: A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly [...]
Vote on the Social Sciences’ Hardest Unsolved Problems
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the April 10th Hardest Problems Symposium that took place at Harvard University. The one day symposium brought together twelve panelists from top universities to share, in their view, the toughest social science challenges. The panelists identified the top thirty hardest, most important, unsolved problems in social science [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, emily oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hilbert Problems, Indira Foundation, james fowler, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, nassim taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, nicholas christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, richard zeckhauser, roland fryer, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, social sciences division, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey, Unsolved Problems Leave a comment
Social Sciences’ “23 Hardest Problems”
Image via Wikipedia I received a call from Nick Nash, Indira Foundation, a few minutes ago telling me about a very interesting symposium tomorrow. Harvard University’s Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with the Indira Foundation are convening a symposium of multidisciplinary experts to identify the world’s hardest unsolved [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Hilbert Problems, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey 2 Comments
APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics. APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience. The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged academic publishing europe, academic technology, APE 2010, APE 2011, Arnoud de Kemp, article level metrics, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, editorial research, eLibrary, Gregg Gordon, librarian research, publishing conference, scholarly communication, scholarly research, scientific publications, SSRN Links 2 Comments
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 [...]
Also posted in Technology & Development, What's new Tagged #CrossRef09, CrossRef, DOI, Geoffrey Bilder Leave a comment
SSRN at Utah State University’s Regional Conference on Institutional Repositories, September 30, 2009
SSRN will be attending Utah State University’s Regional Institutional Repository Conference: Disseminating, Promoting, & Preserving Scholarship. The conference is sponsored by Utah State University, Berkeley Electronic Press, and the Utah Academic Library Consortium. The conference will be on the Logan campus of Utah State University on September 30, 2009. We will be presenting an electronic [...]
Posted in Conferences and Presentations Tagged #IRUSU, & Preserving Scholarship, Berkeley Electronic Press, Disseminating, Institutional Repositories & Discipline Repositories, Institutional repository, Promoting, The IR Horizon, Utah Academic Library Consortium, Utah State University, Utah State University's Regional Institutional Repository Conference Leave a comment
Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum
As many of you know, we have worked closely with The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create our Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). Earlier this year, they held the first Economics Bloggers Forum and I was fortunate to be able to participate. It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to meet and [...]
Also posted in Networks, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Building the Field of Entrepreneurship Research, Economics, Economics Bloggers Forum, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Gregg Gordon, Kauffman Foundation, Renewal of Entrepreneurial Capitalism Leave a comment
Weekly Announcements – August 3, 2009
Here is the latest announcement from SSRN: Announcing EFA 2009 Annual Meeting Abstracting Journal In cooperation with the European Finance Association (EFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 2009 European Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting abstracting journal. The abstracting journal is available to all users at no charge and contains abstracts [...]
Also posted in Recent Announcements Tagged 2009 European Finance Association Annual Meeting, conferences, Economic, EFA, EIASM, European Finance Association, European Foundation for Management Development, European Institue for Advanced Studies Management, FEN, Financial economics, Financial Economics Network, Financial market, Professional association, Social sciences Leave a comment
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, [...]
Is it really a Brave NOW World?
“Brave NOW World” was the theme at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore last week where several ideas were presented for new publishing models and technologies. Geoffrey Bilder (CrossRef) returned this year proselytizing the same model he presented at last year’s meeting. In his usual dry, in-your-face style, he revisited his [...]
Also posted in Social Media, Technology & Development Tagged Geoffrey Bilder, iPub, Mendeley, publishing models, Society for Scholarly Publishing, SSP 2009, Victor Henning 6 Comments
These Times Are a Changing?
I am at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 2009 Annual Meeting. It is very interesting and exciting to see the changes in the view of publishers. Several years ago I sat in a keynote session where a publisher was explaining their incredibly high first copy costs and justifying them based on the value they provided [...]
SSRN Attending JISC & Online Information Meetings in London