From: Michael Stoller <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:52:24 -0400 Elsevier purchased SSRN from Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., an independent privately held corporation operating in Rochester, New York. It was open source but not non-profit. Dr. Michael Stoller Associate Dean Collections & Research Services New York University Libraries 70 Washington Square South New York NY 10012 On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:33 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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]