Category Archives: Technology & Development

News and insight into everything related to development within SSRN.com — new and/or updated technology, user interface, calls for suggestions and feedback, etc.

Recent SSRN Development Project – Commenting Functionality

As part of “narrowing the distance” between authors and readers, we are beta testing “commenting” on all public abstract pages in our Cognitive Science Network.  As I said in a previous post, “…as scholarly research has moved from a model of scarcity to one of information overabundance, content is no longer king. The conversation that [...]
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Re-innovating at SSRN

When I look at the SSRN Community, I am excited and motivated by the challenges and possibilities in front of us.  We need to be innovative and responsive to the changing needs of our community, but have to deal with the harsh realities of a terrible economy and limited development resources. However, I hope we [...]
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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 [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Projects

Here is a brief overview of a few recent development projects: •      Expanded International Content – We upgraded our database to install an expanded character set, which makes uploading of non-English content easier for our international users. •      Duplicate Notification – With roughly 40 percent of submissions being some form of [...]
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