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Category Archives: President’s Notes
Talking Open Access with the European Research Council
I arrived to an overcast Brussels yesterday to share SSRN with the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC was established by the European Commission and it’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of [...]
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The Times, They are a-Changin’ …
My President’s Letter reflected on the milestones of 2012. I truly appreciate everyone’s feedback and am almost caught up in my replies. What I didn’t emphasize was the conversation we had about reaching the 60 million download milestone. When I received the alert that we crossed 60 million I was on a conference call with [...]
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What does scholarly synergy look like?
A few months ago, Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID, invited me to co-author an article in Science about data sharing and the need to create a web-based, multidisciplinary, collaborative infrastructure for both sharing and analysis. Standards and Infrastructure for Innovation Data Exchange, which was published on Friday, highlights several key issues we need to [...]
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reconnect12: Gaming Undermines the Occupation
I’m on my way to Montreal, Canada for @OccupyImpact, CASRAI’s 1st Annual International Conference. During my session, Gaming Undermines the Occupation, with Jennifer Lin from PLoS, we will discuss the issues related to working with large and growing amounts of content. There will be keynotes by Maryse Lassonde, Dr. Claire Donovan and Cameron Neylon, and [...]
A Little Glue for Data Repositories
I’m on my way to Scotland for the sold out Open Repositories 2012. We have been looking at data sharing over the past several months and I was invited to join the Institutional Repositories & Data – Roles and Responsibilities Workshop (#OR2012data) on Monday. SSRN is joining a fantastic collective of leaders this year: Angus Whyte (@aw_dcc), Monica [...]
Alternative is the New Grey
Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in [...]
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 [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged article level metrics, Gasgow, john willbanks, Open Access, sparc, sparc 2012, SSRN Links, UKSG, UKSG annual conference Leave a comment
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: [...]
Also posted in Networks, President's Notes, Scholarship, What's new Tagged GSE research, john peters, scholarly research, SSRN Q&A, Sustainability, sustainability research Leave a comment
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in President's Notes Tagged Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, Freie Universitaet, Freie Universität Berlin, Gregg Gordon, John Willinsky, open source movement, open source software, PKP, Public Knowledge Project, scholarly publishing, School of Education at Stanford University, Simon Fraser University Library, SSRN Links, University of British Columbia Leave a comment
Now Offering Hard Copy Services
SSRN recently released our Purchase Bound Hard Copy Service. Authors and readers can now order printed copies of select papers in the SSRN eLibrary, which provides another format for users to access research papers. The reader will receive a black and white printed and “perfect bound” copy of the PDF document with a glossy color [...]
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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 [...]
SSRN Q&A: Andre De Quadros (Music Network)