From: Michael Stoller <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:52:24 -0400

Elsevier purchased SSRN from Social Science Electronic Publishing,
Inc., an independent privately held corporation operating in
Rochester, New York. It was open source but not non-profit.

Dr. Michael Stoller
Associate Dean
Collections & Research Services
New York University Libraries
70 Washington Square South
New York NY  10012


On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:33 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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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