The Acceleration of Open Access | Library Babel Fish | Everything open | Scoop.it
Does it seem like a lot is going on all of a sudden, or am I just old and out of touch? (Don’t answer that.)
I noted with loud applause the launch of SocArXiv just in the nick of time. SSRN had been a for-profit but pretty useful place to store papers in the social sciences, but it was fairly old-school; since it didn’t have the resources to make renovations, it teamed up with Elsevier and that makes it no longer useful for those who think making research findings public should be in the public interest, not in shareholders’ interest. While SocArXiv builds out its infrastructure, it’s got a place where you can put your research and good reasons why you should.