Is anyone out there familiar with the Social Science Research Netweork? If you are, how does it work?

I've heard of it but haven't used it Here's a little info on it that might help:Academic papers can be posted by the author as a PDF document on SSRN. Academics can subscribe to e-mail newsletter covering various subject matters and will then periodically receive emails providing the abstracts of papers recently submitted to SSRN in the respective field, and a link to the paper. Since its foundation in late 1994, SSRN has grown tremendously in importance in the academic community.

In economics, and to some degree in law (especially in the field of law and economics), almost all papers will now first be published on SSRN before being submitted to an academic journal. This has the advantage that publications will usually become widely known in the academic community at an early stage, which will allow the author to incorporate comments into the final version of the paper before it is published in a journal. The email newsletters ensure that other scholars learn about the paper, which is of crucial importance, given the large number of academic journals.

Furthermore, SSRN offers a search function which allows scholars to find sources for citation. Usually, once a paper is accepted for publication in a journal, it is removed from SSRN with only an abstract remaining there. SSRN is not without its critics.

Papers and authors on the site are ranked by number of downloads. However, it has been argued that this statistic is misleading and open to manipulation (e.g. , by a malicious professor seeking to increase his ranking) or skewing (e.g. , when an otherwise-unimpressive school's ranking is increased by one professor's paper). Other paper distribution networks, like bepress, do not publicize download statistics.

It's easy to subscribe and it's free as far as I can tell. I just tried it. Here's what they say: Why Join SSRN?

* Free access to all abstracts in the SSRN eLibrary * Free subscriptions to partner-sponsored email abstracting journals * Free trial subscriptions to all SSRN abstracting journals * Free downloads of thousands of full text papers in our free paper collection * Online management of your contact information and email abstract journal subscriptions * Access to SSRN's online paper submission and management system for authorsMy interests have generally moved more towards the sciences of late, though I consider anthropology a science, too. This does seem like a great resource for keeping abreast of social science information at the academic level. I hope that helps!

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Science_Research_Network .

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