From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 01:31:57 +0000

>SSRN has a huge advantage of an early starter. Most of us thought it
>would be a non-profit helping researchers around the world gain free
>access to the social science literature until one day we woke up to
>the news a commercial firm had acquired it.

My understanding is that SSRN has been a privately-owned, for-profit
operation from the beginning. Am I mistaken about that?

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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