Category Archives: What’s new

Everything that is new on or related to our site — networks, eJournals, features, etc.

SSRN’s iPhone App, iSSRN, is Available

By Gregg | Published: November 19, 2009
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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CrossRef Creating Impressive Tools

By Gregg | Published: November 13, 2009
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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Share SSRN through Facebook and Twitter

By Gregg | Published: November 5, 2009
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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SSRN Development – CiteReader

By Gregg | Published: August 25, 2009
In 2008, SSRN released CiteReader and Reference Technology into their Beta labs. CiteReader captures references from the papers in the SSRN eLibrary. These references are then verified and linked to the cited papers in the eLibrary. Currently, CiteReader and Reference Technology are accessible to all registered SSRN Users. Registration is free at SSRN’s User HeadQuarters. [...]
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Recent SSRN Development Project – eLibrary Viewer

By Gregg | Published: August 6, 2009
One of the biggest challenges in scholarly research today is wading through the growing mountain of content. We fully acknowledge there is an overabundance of information in scholarly research today and are working hard to make searching and sifting through the content contained in our eLibrary much easier. Since we received ~50,000 submissions last year, [...]
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Commenting Added to ERPN

By Gregg | Published: July 28, 2009
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 Announcements – July 6, 2009

By Gregg | Published: July 7, 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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SSRN joins Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn

By Gregg | Published: May 6, 2009
Today’s post was originally going to be a quick one describing what we are doing with “social networking” and how to follow us.  It still includes instructions below, but I was reviewing my notes from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody for my AACSB presentation last week and realized a couple of fairly obvious points. First, [...]
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SSRN at AACSB April 26-28

By Gregg | Published: April 16, 2009
Gregg Gordon (President/CEO) and Diane Baltadonis (Director of Sales & Marketing) will be attending the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International Conference and Annual Meeting, April 26-28 in Orlando, FL. Gregg will be presenting a session entitled “The Future of Scholarly Publishing”, which will offer insight into trends, technologies and advances associated [...]
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Welcome

By Gregg | Published: April 14, 2009
Welcome to the SSRN Blog, the official blog of the Social Science Research Network. Since its start in 1994, SSRN has grown significantly — we currently have 18 focused research networks, more than 200,000 papers in the eLibrary, and surpassed 25 million total downloads in December (the number is now more than 27 million). As [...]
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