From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:11:42 +0000 Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> writes > My understanding is that SSRN has been a privately-owned, for-profit > operation from the beginning. Sure. And that was a motivation for us to continue with RePEc. Even though the original founders were economics professors we were able to preserve a non-commercial working papers culture in economics, effectively blocking SSRN in their home turf. Socarxiv looks opaque in terms of ownership. I certainly would not promote it. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel