Tag Archives: SSRN Links

Weekly Announcements – April 23, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2 New LSN Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society has started a Law Research Centers Papers series; Queen’s University Belfast School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, both within the [...]
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Happening: SPARC and UKSG

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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Weekly Announcements – January 16, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: A Short Tribute to Larry Ribstein I am personally and professionally saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, Larry E. Ribstein, Mildred van Voorhis Jones Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, a pre-eminent scholar in the field of LLCs and other unincorporated business associations, [...]
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Weekly Announcements – January 9, 2012

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Western New England University Upgrades Its Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series We are pleased to announce Western New England University School of Law has upgraded its basic series to a full series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies. [...]
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50 Million Downloads

SSRN delivered its 50,000,000 full-text download! On 12/26/11 a major milestone occurred when Jan Bena, UBC Professor downloaded “Economic Nationalism in Mergers & Acquisitions“ by Isil Erel and Serdar Dinc. It was the 50 millionth full text PDF delivered from the SSRN eLibrary. Congratulate Jan if you see him because he will receive free subscriptions to all the SSRN [...]
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Happy Holidays From SSRN

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Weekly Announcements – October 10, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing the American Finance Association 2012 Meetings Abstracting Journal In cooperation with the American Finance Association (AFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the conference [...]
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Remixing Scholarly Research

  Kirby Ferguson is a quirky New York-based filmmaker with an interesting idea. He wanted to show copying was often part of the creative process by providing popular examples of remixed content. The research and examples from different types of media have been aggregated into an extremely well done, short video series titled Everything Is [...]
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Public Knowledge Project Conference 2011

I’m flying to Berlin, Germany this weekend for the third international PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (#pkp2011) and looking forward to presenting on SSRN’s Open Access approach and the benefits of article level metrics.  The PKP conference attendees are a broad group of publishers and others interested in Open Source software, new publishing models and providing greater [...]
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Weekly Announcements – September 12, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing New ERN Subject Matter eJournal Abstracts & Papers on SSRN In cooperation with the American Economic Association, the Economics Research Network (ERN) is pleased to announce Ten Years & Beyond: Economists Answer NSF’s Call for Long-Term Research Agendas eJournal papers in the SSRN eLibrary. TEN YEARS & [...]
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Weekly Announcements – July 25, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing IACM 2011 24th Annual Conference Abstracting eJournal In cooperation with the International Association of Conflict Management, the Negotiations Research Network (NEG) is pleased to announce the IACM 2011 24th Annual Conference Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts [...]
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Searle Center “Internet Search and Innovation” Conference Keynote

I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote, Searching and Accessing the Right Content, in the Right Place at the Right Time, tonight at the Searle Center’s Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation at Northwestern Law School.  The Searle Center runs several conferences each year related to the impact of laws and regulations on [...]
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Michael C. Jensen Delivers Georgetown’s MSB Commencement

Michael C. Jensen, SSRN‘s Chairman and Professor Emeritus gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business on Saturday May 21. Jensen spoke to the class about integrity, authenticity and being committed to something bigger than oneself – topics drawn from work with his co-author, Werner Erhard . Jensen [...]
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Weekly Announcements – April 16, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 2nd Finance & Corporate Governance Conference Abstracting eJournal on SSRN In cooperation with the La Trobe University Graduate School of Management in conjunction with the School of Accounting and the School of Economics & Finance of La Trobe University, the School of Business and Law of Auckland [...]
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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 [...]
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SSRN’s CiteReader Project Update

Last week we released a project update to our reference and citation technology, CiteReader.  CiteReader allows readers to view the references within a paper submitted to SSRN and the citations from other papers in the SSRN eLibrary, making it possible for users to easily go backwards and forward in the literature. Here is SSRN Chairman, [...]
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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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TODAY: Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum – Stream Live

I’m in Kansas City today looking forward to attending the Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum. I met some great thinkers and friends at the inaugural conference in ’09 and I am sure this year will only be more of the same. Stream the presentations live today (Friday, April 1 2011) from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 [...]
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Mobility, the Future and Your Business – Tomorrow 10AM

I will be one of three guests speaking tomorrow morning on the “Eyes on the Future” radio show (3.4.2o11) at 10AM. We will be discussing all things mobility, apps, how they can help grow business and the access customers can gain. I invite you to stream the discussion online or if you’re in Rochester, NY [...]
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