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.