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.