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The '''SSRN''', formerly known as '''Social Science Research Network''', is a [[Institutional repository|repository]] and international journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities and more. [[Elsevier]] bought SSRN from Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc. in May 2016.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.elsevier.com/connect/ssrn-the-leading-social-science-and-humanities-repository-and-online-community-joins-elsevier|title=SSRN — a leading social science and humanities repository and online community — joins Elsevier|website=www.elsevier.com|
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SSRN was founded in 1994 by [[Michael C. Jensen|Michael Jensen]] and Wayne Marr, both [[financial economics|financial economists]].
In January 2013, SSRN was ranked the biggest open-access repository in the world by Ranking Web of Repositories (an initiative of the [[Cybermetrics Lab]], a research group belonging to the [[Spanish National Research Council]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/world|title=World|date=January 2013|publisher=Cybermetrics Lab|work=Ranking Web of Repositories|
In May 2016, SSRN was bought from Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc. by [[Elsevier]].<ref name=":0" />
In July 2016 there were reports of papers being removed from SSRN without notice; revision comments from SSRN indicated this was due to copyright concerns.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160718/02211935003/just-as-open-competitor-to-elseviers-ssrn-launches-ssrn-accused-copyright-crackdown.shtml|title=Just As Open Competitor To Elsevier's SSRN Launches, SSRN Accused Of Copyright Crackdown|website=Techdirt|
Starting in 2017, SSRN has been adding new disciplines in areas such as biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, computer science and more.
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Academic papers in PDF format can be uploaded directly to the SSRN site by authors and are then available around the world via download. Users can also subscribe to abstracting emails covering a broad range of research areas and topic specialties. These distributing emails contain abstracts (with links to the full text where applicable) of papers recently submitted to SSRN in the respective field.
SSRN, like other preprint services, circulates publications throughout the scholarly community at an early stage, permitting the author to incorporate comments into the final version of the paper before its publication in a journal. Moreover, even if access to the published paper is restricted, access to the original working paper remains open through SSRN, so long as the author decides to keep the paper up. Often authors take papers down at the request of publishers, particularly if they are published by commercial or university presses that depend on payment for paper copies or online access.
Academic papers in [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] format can be uploaded directly to the SSRN site by authors and are then available for worldwide free downloading. Publishers and institutions can upload papers and charge a fee for readers to download them.<ref name="About_SSRN">{{cite web
On SSRN, authors and papers are ranked by their number of downloads, which has become an informal indicator of popularity on prepress and [[Open access (publishing)|open access]] sites.<ref>{{cite journal
==See also==
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