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. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel