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.