<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hooray for RePEc! <br></div>Thomas, Is there a short answer to the question:<br></div>"How do we know RePEc can't be bought?"<br></div>Do you have any advice to offer economists who are wary of <br></div>the SSRN sellout? <br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Krichel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krichel@openlib.org" target="_blank">krichel@openlib.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Stevan Harnad writes<br>
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> Shame on SSRN.<br>
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Why? I am certainly looking forward to SSRN becoming as undynamic as<br>
Mendeley after an Elsevier takeover.<br>
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> I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated<br>
> expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is<br>
> that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide<br>
> is not for sale, and that is their strength...<br>
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</span> RePEc can not be bought either. I created it before institutional<br>
repositories came along. It is based on the same principles as<br>
institutional repositories.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Thomas Krichel <a href="http://openlib.org/home/krichel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://openlib.org/home/krichel</a><br>
skype:thomaskrichel<br>
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