From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:46:18 -0400
BTW: Anyone know who SocArXiv principals are? Vision? Funds?
And, Arun, just FYI, SSRN has been a wonderful service, but as with
all open access, the piper has to be paid by someone. Institutional
library memberships were/are not trivial. See:
http://papers.ssrn.com/subscriptionforms/mainmenu.cfm?CFID=68987247&CFTOKEN=38999897
Ann
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 1:56 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
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