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: President’s Notes
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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SSRN CEO To Accept Inaugural Jack Palvino Excellence In Communications Award
The St. John Fisher College Communications/Journalism Department, together with Jack Palvino, will honor five Rochester thought-leaders who have demonstrated continued excellence in communications. SSRN President and CEO Gregg Gordon will receive the inaugural Media Gold Award in New Media/Social Media for his leadership and vision of online scholarly communications. Over the past decade, Mr. Gordon has established SSRN as the leading resource for [...]
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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 [...]
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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ALA MIDWINTER ’11
I am packing my bags for the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in San Diego this weekend. There will be close to 10,000 leaders in the library and information media industry and a lot of great events (#ALAMW11 Special Events). If you’re interested in meeting in person to talk about SSRN or scholarly communications in general, [...]
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Automate Me (Information Overabundance – Part III)
We’ve been talking a lot about the wealth and overabundance of information at our digital fingertips. Last week we discussed the increase in academic plagiarism and paper mills as a possible result of the pressures of endless information. Then I read this article on automated reporting. Statsheet.com has fed sports fans scores, stats, and other [...]
GhostCheating (Information Overabundance – Part II)
There are dozens of papers in the SSRN eLibrary about plagiarism, paper mills, and cheating, including ones specifically about Law, Management Science, and Medicine. Since many you have a long a weekend, we think you’ll be interested in this thought provoking article about paid authorship in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Shadow Scholar, written [...]
Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know
A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance. [...]
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