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. Jen
Shame on SSRN.
Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):
It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed
scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer
needed, and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as
a foo
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 su
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
wrote:
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> Stevan Harnad writes
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> > Shame on SSRN.
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Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide is
not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional repositories can be
replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better solutions, more
functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better connected to
databas
Elsevier have actually done a really good job of infiltrating institutional
repositories too:
http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/25/elseviers-growing-monopoly-of-ip-in-academia/
They bought Atira back in 2012 which created PURE which is the software
that many of world's institutional repositories run
To my knowledge a few universities are considering to use the CRIS
software called PURE (by Elsevier, of course) instead of their current
IRs.
Main reason is the "not enough" added value of current IRs repository
managers.
Joachim SCHOPFEL escribió:
> Uh - "the distributed network of Gree
The software may change, but you can't sell off a distributed network of
independent repositories.
Prof Leslie Carr
Web Science institute
#⃣ webscience #⃣ openaccess
On 17 May 2016, at 21:35, Joachim SCHOPFEL
mailto:joachim.schop...@univ-lille3.fr>> wrote:
Uh - "the distributed network of Gree
Isidro
Not so sure. Two weeks ago while visiting university libraries in Europe I saw
that many of them are switching/considering to switch to their CRIS instead of
continuing to rely on their traditional repositories and the mostly open source
software. We'll have to see how far it goes but th
Open access is in the process of transition from a toll access system that
continues to yield enormous profits to a very few publishers at the expense of
the rest of us. OA gains have been significant, but I do not think we should
underestimate the temptation to revert to toll access. The SSRN s
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