From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 01:31:57 +0000 >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. My understanding is that SSRN has been a privately-owned, for-profit operation from the beginning. Am I mistaken about that? --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]