Social Science Research Network confusion leads to calls for boycott https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/19/social-science-research-network-confusion-leads-calls-boycott
ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
A multimillion-dollar funding drive is being readied to transform arXiv, the vastly popular repository to which physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians flock to share their research preprints openly.
But the results of an enormous user survey published this week suggest that researchers are wary of drastic changes to a site that has become an essential part of the infrastructure of modern science.
Source: ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
After the recent sale of SSRN to Thomson Reuters there was some discussion among law faculty about the possibility of launching a new service based on ArXiv or something like it. This article serves to remind us that such a project is feasible, but likely requires strong backing of a major law school or university.
ALL-SIS Teams With SSRN to Co-Sponsor Legal Information and Technology eJournal
ALL-SIS has agreed to co-sponsor the Legal Information and Technology eJournal (http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_legal-info-tech.html) on SSRN for the next three years. The eJournal was launched in January of 2009 and is co-edited by ALL-SIS members Randy Diamond, (diamondrj@missouri.edu) Director of Library and Technology Resources and Associate Legal Research Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Columbia and Lee Peoples, (lpeoples@okcu.edu) Associate Professor of Law Library Science and Associate Director of the Law Library at Oklahoma City University.
via ALL-SIS | ALL-SIS to Co-sponsor SSRN’s Legal Information and Technology eJournal.
The journal will present work on many aspects of legal information and technology. The full Legal Information & Technology library is browsable here.