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SSRN Celebrates 20 Years

By Gregg | Published: April 27, 2012
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 [...]
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Happening: SPARC and UKSG

By Gregg | Published: March 12, 2012
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 [...]
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Open Access Week: SSRN at MIT

By Gregg | Published: October 21, 2011
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 [...]
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Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know

By Gregg | Published: November 17, 2010
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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Open Access

By Gregg | Published: October 21, 2010
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 [...]
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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

By Gregg | Published: March 22, 2010
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 [...]
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