From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:53:25 +0530

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.

Let us hope SocArXiv picks up momentum fast and remains a non-profit for ever.

Arun

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009



On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:45 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:13:32 -0400
>
> With our thanks again to Gary Price's InfoDocket, here's an item of
> great interest, especially after SSRN's move to Elsevier:
>
> SocArXiv, a New Open Social Science Archive Announces Development Plans
>
> http://www.infodocket.com/2016/07/10/socarxiv-an-open-social-science-archive-announces-development-plans/
>
> SocArXiv announces a partnership with the Center for Open Science to
> develop a free, open access, open source archive for social science
> research. The initiative responds to growing recognition of the need
> for faster, open sharing of research on a truly open access platform
> for the social sciences. Papers on SocArXiv will be permanently
> available and free to the public.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> In recent years, academic networking sites have offered to make
> preprints available and help researchers connect with each other, but
> the dominant networks are run by for-profit companies whose primary
> interest is in growing their business, not in providing broad access
> to knowledge. SocArXiv puts access front and center, and its mission
> is to serve researchers and readers, not to make money.