STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Founded in 1994, SSRN is a Rochester, NY-based scholarly research preprint repository and online community. SSRN will be further developed alongside Mendeley, a London-based free reference manager and scholarly collaboration network owned by Elsevier.
SSRN members will benefit from the Mendeley technology platform, its scholarly collaboration network, a leading reference manager and other personal library management tools. Additionally, SSRN members will benefit from access to Mendeley's researcher professional profile capabilities, person to person network communications and 'follow' capabilities. For Elsevier and Mendeley, adding SSRN accelerates its social community strategy, brings opportunities for enhanced author relationships, and provides access to a leading resource for content.
Researchers and institutions are under increasing pressure to demonstrate research output, lay early claim to intellectual work, generate visibility and discourse, and monitor the impact of their work. SSRN provides the scholarly environment to enable this process around preprint work (a preprint is an article that has not yet undergone peer review). Now, Mendeley and Elsevier can help close the loop from research collaboration and preprint feedback to broad dissemination while providing to SSRN members authoritative performance measurement tools powered by Scopus, Newsflo (global media mentions) and other sources.
SSRN's Chairman, CEO and other employees will remain with the company, and SSRN will retain its freemium model, with content 'free to submit, and free to download' for its users.
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