This week I’m attending the JCDL 2011 (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) in Ottawa, Canada and presenting during the Thinking Back and Looking Forward session of the Disciplinary Repositories Workshop.  This year’s theme is “Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data” and our workshop will give anyone the chance to see how disciplinary repositories really work.  This is your chance to ask real questions to real people that are running real DRs.  Here is a list of presenters.

If you too are attending and would like to meetup, send me a message.

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing Expansion of LSN Intellectual Property Law Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce the expansion of Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Intellectual Property Law into the following eJournals:

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COPYRIGHT LAW eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Copyright-Law.html
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Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of copyright law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: EMPIRICAL STUDIES eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Empirical-Studies.html
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Editors: Christopher J. Buccafusco, Assistant Professor of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago-Kent College of Law, and David L. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that provide quantitative and qualitative empirical and experimental studies of intellectual property, innovation, and related laws (including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and similar forms of protection). The eJournal will focus on papers that report new data and analysis, but will also include papers that review and analyze empirical and experimental papers in these areas.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: OTHER eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Other.html
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Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of intellectual property law outside of traditional patent, copyright and trademark law. Examples include research into trade secret law, competition law, privacy law and cyber law.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PATENT LAW eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Patent-Law.html
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Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of patent law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: TRADEMARK LAW eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Trademark-Law.html
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Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of trademark law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental).

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 30, 2009:

1. Common Errors in the Interpretation of the Ideas of The Black Swan and Associated Papers
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU Poly – Department of Finance and Risk Engineering)

2. Frames from the Framers: How America’s Revolutionaries Imagined Intellectual Property
by Lewis Hyde (Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society)

3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

4. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School)

5. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
by Daniel Kaufmann (The Brookings Institution) and Aart Kraay (World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG)) and Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute)