Hooray for RePEc! Thomas, Is there a short answer to the question: "How do we know RePEc can't be bought?" Do you have any advice to offer economists who are wary of the SSRN sellout?
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> wrote: > > Stevan Harnad writes > > > Shame on SSRN. > > Why? I am certainly looking forward to SSRN becoming as undynamic as > Mendeley after an Elsevier takeover. > > > I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated > > expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure > is > > that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories > worldwide > > is not for sale, and that is their strength... > > RePEc can not be bought either. I created it before institutional > repositories came along. It is based on the same principles as > institutional repositories. > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel > skype:thomaskrichel > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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