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June 30, 2010
The Perfect Business Model for Digital Repositories of Legal Scholarship: Make Materials Available While Providing Download Counts to Stroke Law Prof Egos
Unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to implementation of the well-intended Durham Statement may very well be SSRN's asinine download stats. Here's a snip for the 2010 Mid-Year President's Letter.
2010 is our 16th year and it is off to a great start. Our eLibrary (http://ssrn.com/search) has delivered over 37.4 million downloads to date and grown to 290,000 documents and 138,000 authors - increases over the last year of 53,000 and 22,000 respectively. Our CiteReader technology, developed with ITX Corp, has captured over 6 million references, 5.7 million footnotes, and close to 3.9 million citation links. We believe this growth in multi-disciplinary, open access content is exciting and contributing to innovative scholarly research in social science and humanities.
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Thank you again for your continued support of SSRN!
Gregg Gordon
President
Social Science Research Network
[JH]
June 30, 2010 in Digital Collections, Law School News & Views | Permalink
