This is an interesting news item which should interest the readers of
this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.
Bo-Christer Björk
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Subject: Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael C. Jensen <ad...@ssrn.com>
Reply-To: supp...@ssrn.com
To: bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi
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Dear SSRN Authors,
SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is joining
Mendeley <https://www.mendeley.com/?signout> and Elsevier
<https://www.elsevier.com> to coordinate our development and delivery of
new products and services, and we look forward to our new access to
data, products, and additional resources that this change facilitates.
(See Gregg Gordon’s Elsevier Connect
<https://www.elsevier.com/connect/ssrn-the-leading-social-science-and-humanities-repository-and-online-community-joins-elsevier>
post)
Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools that
enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been at the
forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are committed to
continue our innovation and this change will enable that to happen more
quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the vast new data and
resources available, including Mendeley’s reference management and
personal library management tools, their new researcher profile
capabilities, and social networking features. Importantly, we will also
have new access for SSRN members to authoritative performance
measurement tools such as those powered by Scopus
<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus> and Newsflo
<http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/RedirectClick.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740&url=http://www.newsflo.net>
(a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier
together can cooperatively build bridges to close the divide between the
previously separate worlds and workflows of working papers and published
papers.
We realize that this change may create some concerns about the
intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working paper
repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion about this
matter and others in determining if Mendeley and Elsevier would be a
good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they would be good stewards of
our mission. And our copyright policies are not in conflict -- our
policy has always been to host only papers that do not infringe on
copyrights. I expect we will have some conflicts as we align our
interests, but I believe those will be surmountable.
Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best served
being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in the evolving
landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit from being more
interconnected and with the resources available from a larger
organization. For example, there is scale in systems administration and
security, and SSRN can provide more value to users with access to more
data and resources.
On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the past 25
years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and the incredible
community of authors, researchers and institutions that has made this
all possible. I consider it one of my great accomplishments in life. The
community would not have been successful without the commitment of so
many of you who have contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the
community we have created, and I invite you to continue your involvement
and support in this effort.
The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and
myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be free
to upload and download papers, and we remain committed to “Tomorrow’s
Research Today”. I look forward to and am committed to a successful
transition and to another great 25 years for the SSRN community that
rivals the first.
Michael C. Jensen
Founder & Chairman, SSRN
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