It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means | Savage Minds

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-05-19

Summary:

"So what is the real value in SSRN? Data."

...

"Because it is “open access” and because it collects an impressively diverse range of social science in one place, SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well."

 

Link:

http://savageminds.org/2016/05/18/its-the-data-stupid-what-elseviers-purchase-of-ssrn-also-means/

From feeds:

Data & Society » data_society's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.elsevier oa.ssrn oa.publishers oa.ssh oa.access oa.prices oa.comment oa.green oa.impact oa.repositories oa.metrics

Date tagged:

05/19/2016, 09:34

Date published:

05/19/2016, 07:56