Tag Archives: SSRN Links

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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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.  [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 15, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Journal of Investment Consulting Joins FEN Partners in Publishing Journals We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Investment Consulting has joined our Financial Economics Network (FEN) Partners in Publishing Journals. JOURNAL OF INVESTMENT CONSULTING View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Journal-Investment-Consulting.html The Journal of Investment Consulting keeps investment management consultants [...]
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Weekly Announcements – November 8, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 3 New LSN Research Paper Series Journals We are pleased to announce that a consortium of Nordic Business Schools and Universities has started Nordic & European Company Law, a Law Research Centers Papers series; University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, and University of Oslo Faculty of Law [...]
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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 [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 25, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Joins LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) William H. Bowen School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship [...]
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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 [...]
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Weekly Announcements – August 10, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing 17th Conference on the Theories & Practices of Securities & Financial Markets on SSRN In cooperation with the National Sun Yat-Sen University, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 17th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets Online Proceedings. These [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 2, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending October 2, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework by Peter S. Menell (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 25, 2009

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending September 25, 2009: 1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School) 3. A [...]
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