From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:01:06 +0000


Jean-Claude points us to  http://www.ssrn.com/update/general/mjensen.html

> SSRN earns revenue to cover its considerable expenses from the more
> than 400 institutions that outsource the distribution of their
> research papers to SSRN through SSRN's Research Paper Series,

Which RePEc essentially does for free.

> subscription fees for SSRN's subject matter abstracting eJournals,

For which I founded a RePEc equivalent that is volunteer driven
and freely available called NEP: New Economics Papers.

http://nep.repec.org

It's a highly sophisticated system.

> fees received for professional and job announcements,

NEP actually does accepts some sponoserd anouncements.

> conference fees for SSRN's Conference Management System, and lastly
> from fees shared with SSRN by publishers who distribute their papers
> through SSRN on a pay-per-download basis.

Which is not open access.

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