From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:41:39 +0000 Rick, you are not. Lisa -- Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Professor/ Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction University Library, University of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801 [log in to unmask], 217-333-1323 (v), 217-244-4358 (f) ________________________________________ 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]