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
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> À: Global
Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
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Dear SSRN Authors,
SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is
joining Mendeley <https://www.mendeley.com/?signout>
andElsevier <https://www.elsevier.com> 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
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Connect
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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 <https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus>
and Newsflo
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(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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