Social-sciences preprint server snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier : Nature News & Comment

"After trying without success more than a decade ago to set up preprint servers — where academics share their papers before peer review — science-publishing giant Elsevier is now buying one. It is paying an undisclosed sum for the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), one of the world’s most popular repositories of research in economics, law and the social sciences."