For social sciences, the equivalent of arXiv is SSRN, the Social Science Research Network [1][2]. arXiv itself is not very open to expanding subject coverage, due to financial pressures [3].
-Jodi [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Science_Research_Network [2] http://ssrn.com/ [3] http://arxiv.org/help/support/faq#7E On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschnei...@pobox.com>wrote: > >> Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. > > > Yes. > >> >> I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to >> give advice. But generally, I don't think that we need more journals. >> > > Well, we definitely need more arXiv topic areas or equivalents outside the > hard sciences. > People should be able to publish their work as quickly as they like in a > professional way, especially in fields that change rapidly and need to > benefit from collaborating with one another. > > SJ >
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