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Tag Archives: scholarly research
Did You Know?
SSRN provides an eye-friendly short-form URL for every author and abstract page. Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1234567 This URL is useful in your email “signature,” allowing recipients to quickly find your research (without running the risk of fumbling to copy a long string of a URL that may not paste properly). For example: Sincerely, John Doe Professor [...]
Posted in Technology & Development, User experience Also tagged abstract page, author page, Customer Support, SSRN Links Leave a comment
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 [...]
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: [...]
Posted in Networks, President's Notes, Scholarship, What's new Also tagged GSE research, john peters, SSRN Q&A, Sustainability, sustainability research Leave a comment
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, Technology & Development Also 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, thought process, University of British Columbia, Wall Street Journal Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Technology & Development Also 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, scientific publications, SSRN Links 2 Comments
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