[GOAL] Policy to make sure open access works stay open access (was SSRN sellout to Elsevier)

2016-05-17 Thread Heather Morrison 
Open access is in the process of transition from a toll access system that 
continues to yield enormous profits to a very few publishers at the expense of 
the rest of us. OA gains have been significant, but I do not think we should 
underestimate the temptation to revert to toll access. The SSRN sellout to 
Elsevier might be a good opportunity to consider how to develop open access 
policy to ensure that works that are made open access remain open access. Every 
potential approach has both strengths and weaknesses. I argue that a 
sustainable open access ecosystem needs to have redundancy built in. Copies of 
OA works should be in the institutional repository, every possible subject 
repository, as well as many research and national libraries around the world 
for safeguarding.

One of the potential vulnerabilities of institutional repositories is that 
institutions facing a budgetary crisis could be tempted to charge for access or 
to sell off the repository (or even the institution). 

The best policy to date to minimize this potential, in my mind, is the MIT 
faculty open access policy (acknowledging Harvard as the pioneer of this style 
of policy). Following is the relevant part of the text of the policy:

"Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to 
exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. 
In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, 
paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright 
relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that 
the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the 
same”. 
from: 
https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/

The improvement over the Harvard policy is the specification that the articles 
are to be made available for the purpose of open dissemination. The reason that 
this is important is because specifying that the articles not be “sold for a 
profit” leads the door open for cost-recovery charges. Institutional 
cost-recovery could include paying a company that provides the service, e.g. 
Elsevier. If anyone is considering similar policy I recommend adding a clause 
stating “free of charge for the user” which is much clearer.

If even a few large research libraries around the world were to regularly 
download and make accessible a mirror of the whole MIT open access repository, 
making good use of their downstream user rights, I submit that that would be a 
very robust system indeed to secure open access into the future.

Thoughts?

-- 
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
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Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Éric Archambault 
Isidro

Not so sure. Two weeks ago while visiting university libraries in Europe I saw 
that many of them are switching/considering to switch to their CRIS instead of 
continuing to rely on their traditional repositories and the mostly open source 
software. We'll have to see how far it goes but the rise of national research 
assessment exercises and national OA mandates, there is growing pressure to 
consolidate research data and expect Elsevier, Holtzbrinck (->Digital 
Science->Symplectic), and Thomson Reuters (and whomever acquires the IP & 
Science unit - which the rumor mill suggests could be acquired by BC Partners, 
itself Holtzbrinck's partner in Springer Nature - thus possibly more 
consolidation on the way) to increase their stronghold on research data and 
research intelligence. 

Only fools think we are witnessing an opening of research knowledge 
dissemination. The winners of open data and open access will be large 
corporates concerns. Research is big business and there are huge economies of 
scale in that industry, just as in so many others. Consolidation is the name of 
the game, and amateur bricolage solutions are giving way to corporate 
professional solutions, whether we like it or not. 

Eric


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-Original Message-
From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of 
Isidro F. Aguillo
Sent: May 17, 2016 4:59 PM
To: goal@eprints.org
Subject: Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

To my knowledge a few universities are considering to use the CRIS  
software called PURE (by Elsevier, of course) instead of their current  
IRs.

Main reason is the "not enough" added value of current IRs repository  
managers.

Joachim SCHOPFEL  escribió:

> Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories  
> worldwide is not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional  
> repositories can be replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better  
> solutions, more functionalities, more added value, more efficient,  
> better connected to databases and gold/hybrid journals etc.
> - Mail d'origine -
> De: Stevan Harnad 
> À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
> Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
> Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier
>
> Shame on SSRN.
> Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):
> It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed  
> scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no  
> longer needed, and in which they would not even have been able to  
> gain as much as a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of  
> being inherited as a legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era.
> I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its  
> concentrated expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign  
> take-overs) but what's sure is that the distributed network of Green  
> institutional repositories worldwide  is not for sale, and that is  
> their strength...
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk  
>  wrote:
> This is an interesting news item which should interest the
>  readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.Bo-Christer Björk
>
>
>
>   Forwarded Message 
> Subject:
> Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN ChairmanDate:Tue, 17 May 2016  
> 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)From:Michael C. Jensen Reply-To:
> support@ssrn.comTo:bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi
>
>
>
> Dear SSRN Authors,
>
>
>  SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
>  joining Mendeley and Elsevier
>  to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and
>  services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,
>  and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
>  Gordon’s Elsevier
>  Connect post)
>
>
>  Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools
>  that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been
>  at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are
>  committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable
>  that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the
>  vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s
>  reference management and personal library management tools, their
>  new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking
>  features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
>  members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as
>  those powered by Scopus and
>  Newsflo
>  (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and
>  Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the
>  divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of
>  working

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Leslie Carr 
The software may change, but you can't sell off a distributed network of 
independent repositories.

Prof Leslie Carr
Web Science institute
#⃣ webscience #⃣ openaccess

On 17 May 2016, at 21:35, Joachim SCHOPFEL 
> wrote:

Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide is 
not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional repositories can be 
replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better solutions, more 
functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better connected to 
databases and gold/hybrid journals etc.

- Mail d'origine -
De: Stevan Harnad >
À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
>
Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Shame on SSRN.

Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):

It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed 
scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer needed, 
and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as a foothold 
if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a legacy from an 
obsolete Gutenberg era.

I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated expenses 
are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is that the 
distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide  is not for 
sale, and that is their strength...

Stevan Harnad



On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk 
> wrote:

This is an interesting news item which should interest the
readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.

Bo-Christer Björk



 Forwarded Message 
Subject:
Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman
Date:   Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Michael C. Jensen 
Reply-To:
supp...@ssrn.com
To: bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi



[http://papers.ssrn.com/Organizations/images/ihp_ssrnlogo.png]
   [http://static.ssrn.com/Images/Header/socialnew.gif]


Dear SSRN Authors,


SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
joining Mendeley and 
Elsevier
to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and
services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,
and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
Gordon’s Elsevier
Connect
 post)


Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools
that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been
at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are
committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable
that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the
vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s
reference management and personal library management tools, their
new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking
features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as
those powered by Scopus and
Newsflo
(a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and
Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the
divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of
working papers and published papers.


We realize that this change may create some concerns about the
intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working
paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion
about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and
Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they
would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies
are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only
papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have
some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will
be surmountable.


Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best
served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in
the evolving landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit
from being more interconnected and with the resources available
from a larger organization. For example, there is scale in systems
administration and security, and SSRN can provide more value

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Isidro F. Aguillo 
To my knowledge a few universities are considering to use the CRIS  
software called PURE (by Elsevier, of course) instead of their current  
IRs.

Main reason is the "not enough" added value of current IRs repository  
managers.

Joachim SCHOPFEL  escribió:

> Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories  
> worldwide is not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional  
> repositories can be replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better  
> solutions, more functionalities, more added value, more efficient,  
> better connected to databases and gold/hybrid journals etc.
> - Mail d'origine -
> De: Stevan Harnad 
> À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
> Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
> Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier
>
> Shame on SSRN.
> Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):
> It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed  
> scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no  
> longer needed, and in which they would not even have been able to  
> gain as much as a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of  
> being inherited as a legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era.
> I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its  
> concentrated expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign  
> take-overs) but what's sure is that the distributed network of Green  
> institutional repositories worldwide  is not for sale, and that is  
> their strength...
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk  
>  wrote:
> This is an interesting news item which should interest the
>  readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.Bo-Christer Björk
>
>
>
>   Forwarded Message 
> Subject:
> Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN ChairmanDate:Tue, 17 May 2016  
> 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)From:Michael C. Jensen Reply-To:
> support@ssrn.comTo:bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi
>
>
>
> Dear SSRN Authors,
>
>
>  SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
>  joining Mendeley and Elsevier
>  to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and
>  services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,
>  and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
>  Gordon’s Elsevier
>  Connect post)
>
>
>  Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools
>  that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been
>  at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are
>  committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable
>  that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the
>  vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s
>  reference management and personal library management tools, their
>  new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking
>  features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
>  members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as
>  those powered by Scopus and
>  Newsflo
>  (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and
>  Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the
>  divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of
>  working papers and published papers.
>
>
>  We realize that this change may create some concerns about the
>  intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working
>  paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion
>  about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and
>  Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they
>  would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies
>  are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only
>  papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have
>  some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will
>  be surmountable.
>
>
>  Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best
>  served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in
>  the evolving landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit
>  from being more interconnected and with the resources available
>  from a larger organization. For example, there is scale in systems
>  administration and security, and SSRN can provide more value to
>  users with access to more data and resources.
>
>
>  On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the
>  past 25 years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and
>  the incredible community of authors, researchers and institutions
>  that has made this all possible. I consider it one of my great
>  accomplishments in life. The community would not have been
>  successful without the commitment of so many of you who have
>  contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the community we have
>  created, and I invite you to

Re: [GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Ross Mounce 
Elsevier have actually done a really good job of infiltrating institutional
repositories too:
http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/25/elseviers-growing-monopoly-of-ip-in-academia/

They bought Atira back in 2012 which created PURE which is the software
that many of world's institutional repositories run on.
I presume it reports back all information to Elsevier so they can further
monetise academic IP.

Best,

Ross




On 17 May 2016 at 21:22, Joachim SCHOPFEL 
wrote:

> Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories
> worldwide is not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional
> repositories can be replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better
> solutions, more functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better
> connected to databases and gold/hybrid journals etc.
>
> - Mail d'origine -
> De: Stevan Harnad 
> À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
> Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
> Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier
>
> Shame on SSRN.
>
> Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):
>
> It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed
> scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer
> needed, and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as
> a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a
> legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era.
>
> I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated
> expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is
> that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide
>  is not for sale, and that is their strength...
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk <
> bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi> wrote:
>
>> This is an interesting news item which should interest the
>> readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.
>>
>> Bo-Christer Björk
>>
>>
>>
>>  Forwarded Message 
>> Subject:
>> Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman
>> Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Michael C. Jensen  
>> Reply-To:
>> supp...@ssrn.com
>> To: bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi
>>
>> [image: Web Bug from
>> http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/TrackEmailOpening.cfm?partid=2338421=4024=15740]
>>
>> 
>>
>> Dear SSRN Authors,
>>
>>
>> SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
>> joining Mendeley  and Elsevier
>> 
>> to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and
>> services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,
>> and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
>> Gordon’s Elsevier
>> Connect
>> 
>> post)
>>
>>
>> Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools
>> that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been
>> at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are
>> committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable
>> that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the
>> vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s
>> reference management and personal library management tools, their
>> new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking
>> features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
>> members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as
>> those powered by Scopus  and
>> Newsflo
>> 
>> (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and
>> Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the
>> divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of
>> working papers and published papers.
>>
>>
>> We realize that this change may create some concerns about the
>> intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working
>> paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion
>> about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and
>> Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they
>> would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies
>> are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only
>> papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have
>> some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will
>> be surmountable.
>>
>>
>> Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best
>> served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in
>> the

[GOAL] Re : Re: SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Joachim SCHOPFEL 
Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide is 
not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional repositories can be 
replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better solutions, more 
functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better connected to 
databases and gold/hybrid journals etc. 
- Mail d'origine -
De: Stevan Harnad 
À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

Shame on SSRN.
Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):
It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed 
scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer needed, 
and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as a foothold 
if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a legacy from an 
obsolete Gutenberg era.
I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated expenses 
are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is that the 
distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide  is not for 
sale, and that is their strength...
Stevan Harnad


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk 
 wrote:
This is an interesting news item which should interest the
 readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.Bo-Christer Björk



  Forwarded Message 
Subject:
Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN ChairmanDate:Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 
(EDT)From:Michael C. Jensen Reply-To:
support@ssrn.comTo:bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi



Dear SSRN Authors,


 SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
 joining Mendeley and Elsevier
 to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and
 services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,
 and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
 Gordon’s Elsevier
 Connect post)


 Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools
 that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been
 at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are
 committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable
 that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the
 vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s
 reference management and personal library management tools, their
 new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking
 features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
 members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as
 those powered by Scopus and
 Newsflo
 (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and
 Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the
 divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of
 working papers and published papers.


 We realize that this change may create some concerns about the
 intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working
 paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion
 about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and
 Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they
 would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies
 are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only
 papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have
 some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will
 be surmountable.


 Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best
 served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in
 the evolving landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit
 from being more interconnected and with the resources available
 from a larger organization. For example, there is scale in systems
 administration and security, and SSRN can provide more value to
 users with access to more data and resources.


 On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the
 past 25 years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and
 the incredible community of authors, researchers and institutions
 that has made this all possible. I consider it one of my great
 accomplishments in life. The community would not have been
 successful without the commitment of so many of you who have
 contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the community we have
 created, and I invite you to continue your involvement and support
 in this effort.


 The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and
 myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be
 free to upload and download papers, and we remain committed to
 “Tomorrow’s Research Today”. I look forward to and am committed to
 a successful transition and to another great 25 years for the SSRN
 community that rivals the first.


 Michael C. Jensen

Founder & Chairman, SSRN



Search
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Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Thomas Krichel 

  Stevan Harnad writes

> Shame on SSRN.

  Why? I am certainly looking forward to SSRN becoming as undynamic as
  Mendeley after an Elsevier takeover.

> I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated
> expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is
> that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide
> is not for sale, and that is their strength...

  RePEc can not be bought either. I created it before institutional
  repositories came along. It is based on the same principles as
  institutional repositories.


-- 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
  skype:thomaskrichel
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Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

2016-05-17 Thread Stevan Harnad 
Shame on SSRN.

Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):

It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed
scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer
needed, and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as
a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a
legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era.

I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated
expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is
that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide
 is not for sale, and that is their strength...

Stevan Harnad



On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk <
bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi> wrote:

> This is an interesting news item which should interest the readers of this
> list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.
>
> Bo-Christer Björk
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael C. Jensen  
> Reply-To: supp...@ssrn.com
> To: bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi
>
> [image: Web Bug from
> http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/TrackEmailOpening.cfm?partid=2338421=4024=15740]
>
> 
> Dear SSRN Authors,
>
> SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is joining
> Mendeley  and Elsevier
>  to coordinate our development and delivery of
> new products and services, and we look forward to our new access to data,
> products, and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg
> Gordon’s Elsevier Connect
> 
> post)
>
> Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools that
> enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been at the
> forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are committed to
> continue our innovation and this change will enable that to happen more
> quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the vast new data and resources
> available, including Mendeley’s reference management and personal library
> management tools, their new researcher profile capabilities, and social
> networking features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN
> members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as those
> powered by Scopus  and Newsflo
> 
> (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier
> together can cooperatively build bridges to close the divide between the
> previously separate worlds and workflows of working papers and published
> papers.
>
> We realize that this change may create some concerns about the intentions
> of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working paper repository. I
> shared this concern. But after much discussion about this matter and others
> in determining if Mendeley and Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am
> convinced that they would be good stewards of our mission. And our
> copyright policies are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to
> host only papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have
> some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will be
> surmountable.
>
> Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best served
> being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in the evolving
> landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit from being more
> interconnected and with the resources available from a larger organization.
> For example, there is scale in systems administration and security, and
> SSRN can provide more value to users with access to more data and resources.
>
> On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the past 25
> years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and the incredible
> community of authors, researchers and institutions that has made this all
> possible. I consider it one of my great accomplishments in life. The
> community would not have been successful without the commitment of so many
> of you who have contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the community we
> have created, and I invite you to continue your involvement and support in
> this effort.
>
> The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and
> myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be free to
> upload and download papers, and we remain committed to “Tomorrow’s Research
> Today”. I look forward to and am committed to a successful transition and
> to another great 25 years for the SSRN community that

[GOAL] {Disarmed} Fwd: Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman

2016-05-17 Thread Bo-Christer Björk 
This is an interesting news item which should interest the readers of 
this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.


Bo-Christer Björk



 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman
Date:   Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Michael C. Jensen 
Reply-To:   supp...@ssrn.com
To: bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi



 
	



Dear SSRN Authors,

SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is joining 
Mendeley  and Elsevier 
 to coordinate our development and delivery of 
new products and services, and we look forward to our new access to 
data, products, and additional resources that this change facilitates. 
(See Gregg Gordon’s Elsevier Connect 
 
post)


Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools that 
enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been at the 
forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are committed to 
continue our innovation and this change will enable that to happen more 
quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the vast new data and 
resources available, including Mendeley’s reference management and 
personal library management tools, their new researcher profile 
capabilities, and social networking features. Importantly, we will also 
have new access for SSRN members to authoritative performance 
measurement tools such as those powered by Scopus 
 and Newsflo 
 
(a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier 
together can cooperatively build bridges to close the divide between the 
previously separate worlds and workflows of working papers and published 
papers.


We realize that this change may create some concerns about the 
intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working paper 
repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion about this 
matter and others in determining if Mendeley and Elsevier would be a 
good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they would be good stewards of 
our mission. And our copyright policies are not in conflict -- our 
policy has always been to host only papers that do not infringe on 
copyrights. I expect we will have some conflicts as we align our 
interests, but I believe those will be surmountable.


Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best served 
being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in the evolving 
landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit from being more 
interconnected and with the resources available from a larger 
organization. For example, there is scale in systems administration and 
security, and SSRN can provide more value to users with access to more 
data and resources.


On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the past 25 
years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and the incredible 
community of authors, researchers and institutions that has made this 
all possible. I consider it one of my great accomplishments in life. The 
community would not have been successful without the commitment of so 
many of you who have contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the 
community we have created, and I invite you to continue your involvement 
and support in this effort.


The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and 
myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be free 
to upload and download papers, and we remain committed to “Tomorrow’s 
Research Today”. I look forward to and am committed to a successful 
transition and to another great 25 years for the SSRN community that 
rivals the first.


Michael C. Jensen
Founder & Chairman, SSRN





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