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Category Archives: President’s Notes
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 [...]
Also posted in President's Notes Tagged b-school, best colleges online, Business, Business school, business school predictions, business school trends, Colleges and Universities, Curriculum, Distance education, Education, Entrepreneur, ethics, Forbes, Gregg Gordon, higher ed, Master of Business Administration, MBA, MBA oath, mba predictions, SSRN Links, student vs. customer, values business school, yale Leave a comment
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 [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged aha moment, brain studies, Creativity, Dr. John Kounios, Drexel University, Kalina Christoff, lightbulb moment, Mark Jung-Beeman, mind wandering, Northwestern University, productive thinking, productivity behavior, reasearch on mind wandering, scholarly research, thought process, University of British Columbia, Wall Street Journal Leave a comment
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 [...]
Social Sciences’ “23 Hardest Problems”
Image via Wikipedia I received a call from Nick Nash, Indira Foundation, a few minutes ago telling me about a very interesting symposium tomorrow. Harvard University’s Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with the Indira Foundation are convening a symposium of multidisciplinary experts to identify the world’s hardest unsolved [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Hilbert Problems, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey 2 Comments
Putting your feet up on the desk helps produce results … I love it!
Last year I asked our managers to schedule a 30 minute “contemplative meeting” every day on their calendars. I realized that I was much more innovative when I scheduled this meeting with myself than when I double booked meetings all day. While I thought I was getting more done by over scheduling, I was actually [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged aha moment, Caterina Fake, Caterina Fake Stewart Butterfield, creative thinking at work, distracted at work, driven by distraction, flickr founder, Kalina Christoff, micro-blogging, productive at work, productiviy in the work place, research on productivity, work ethic, working late 3 Comments
APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics. APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience. The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged academic publishing europe, academic technology, APE 2010, APE 2011, Arnoud de Kemp, article level metrics, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, editorial research, eLibrary, Gregg Gordon, librarian research, publishing conference, scholarly communication, scholarly research, scientific publications, SSRN Links 2 Comments
SSRN’s iPhone App, iSSRN, is Available
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 [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, Technology & Development, What's new Tagged Apple, AppStore, iPhone, iSSRN, iTouch, iTunes 7 Comments
Humbled by Repository Ranking :)
Not to sound boastful but I was wonderfully surprised to see that SSRN was number one on the current Ranking Web of World Repositories. The ranking is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain and includes a [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged CSIC, Institutional Repositories & Discipline Repositories Leave a comment
Weekly Announcements – October 26, 2009
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Erasmus Law Review Upgrades Its LSN Partners in Publishing Journal We are pleased to announce that Erasmus Law Review has upgraded its Partners in Publishing Journal within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), which includes, but is not limited to, a customized abstracting eJournal distributed to SSRN subscribers. View [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Recent Announcements Tagged China Academy of Financial Research, Economics, Education, Florida, George Mason University, Harvard Business School, Law, Law school, Research, Social Science Research Network, Social sciences, Stetson University College of Law, Tampa Florida, United States, US, Washington DC Leave a comment
Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum
As many of you know, we have worked closely with The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create our Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). Earlier this year, they held the first Economics Bloggers Forum and I was fortunate to be able to participate. It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to meet and [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, Networks, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Building the Field of Entrepreneurship Research, Economics, Economics Bloggers Forum, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Gregg Gordon, Kauffman Foundation, Renewal of Entrepreneurial Capitalism Leave a comment
Automate Me (Information Overabundance – Part III)