SSRN 2005 Mid-Year Break
Dear SSRN Community Member:
SSRN's significant growth has continued through the first half of
2005. Full text PDF downloads from the eLibrary were 2.5 million for
the last 12 months (up from 2.2 million for the same period last
year). The total number of documents in SSRN's eLibrary increased by
over 11,000 in the last 6 months and the total number of authors in
the eLibrary exceeds 50,000. We provide daily-updated statistics on
the eLibrary Search page http://papers.ssrn.com.
We are very proud of SSRN's enthusiastic reception by the worldwide
scholarly community and intend to continue our commitment to be a
part of the worldwide open access movement.
As we announced yesterday, we are expanding our relationships with
providers of scholarly research, including academic institutions,
research centers, professional associations, publishers, and other
open access database providers. Our goal is to provide critical mass
to researchers and readers in our subject areas. I hope you will tell
us what you think it takes to continue SSRN's reach and influence by
sending me an email at
585.442.8170.
Our mid-year break is scheduled for Monday, 27 June through Sunday,
10 July 2005. During the break, SSRN's email abstracting journals
will not be distributed so that we can perform maintenance on our
servers and test expanded search functionality that will be released
later this year. We will continue to provide support for downloads,
submissions, subscriptions. For any requests during the break, please
contact
(1-877-777-6435).
Thank you for a great start in 2005!
Gregg Gordon
President
Social Science Research Network
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