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Category Archives: President’s Notes
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. [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Scholarship, Social Media, Technology & Development Tagged article level metrics, Citations, downloads, Eignefactor, information measurement, information overload, innovation, scholarly research, Social Science Research Network, SSRN Links, what's worth reading 3 Comments
Riding Two Surfboards, Historically Speaking
Robert B. Townsend, assistant director for research and publications at the American Historical Association (AHA), wrote about the recent AHA survey exploring the current state of new media in their field. The findings are a very good example of what we’ve been seeing across the Humanities at SSRN; a large percentage of users with general [...]
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 Conferences and Presentations, 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 [...]
Libraries: Keeping It Real
via I was at MIT a few days ago and had the opportunity to participate in Erik Brynjolfsson‘s class at Sloan School of Management. It was a fun class. We discussed the early days of SSRN, bundled services, and electronic resources in general. During the conversation, I asked the MBA students if they knew where [...]
Three R’s & a V
The 3 R’s, the long held foundation of teaching, are adding another letter to their crew. Looking to increase the effective communication of knowledge, several companies are shifting to visual tools and technologies. Amongst them, different approaches are beginning to emerge. While SSRN has recently beta tested adding audio and video content to the eLibrary, [...]
The Future of Business School
The current economic climate is causing many institutions to re-evaluate their role and approach to doing business, including business schools themselves. Best Colleges Online recently posted an article 10 Predictions for the Future of B-schools that discuss several important points and identifies some general trends for business schools like globalization and distance learning. Schools are [...]
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A Wandering Mind is a Busy Mind
A couple of weeks ago we blogged about taking contemplative time to find innovative solutions. Along the same theme, I wanted to visit another interesting behavior: the wandering mind. A friend shared a Wall Street Journal article that explores how a wandering mind can lead to creative insights. Today, more than ever, innovators are eager [...]
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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 Conferences and Presentations, 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
Research to Consider: The NFL’s Draft is Broken
via The highly anticipated National Football League Draft begins tomorrow evening (4/22/10) and, for the first time, will be televised during prime time on ESPN and NFL Network. This is the NFL’s most important off-season event and followed closely by fans around the world. But, two scholars suggest the process is flawed because teams significantly [...]
Michael C. Jensen Delivers Georgetown’s MSB Commencement