<div dir="ltr"><div>Please can the Elsevier poster of this announcement define exactly (in operational terms, not marketing fluff) what is meant by "openaccess" . When I visit the SSRN site I find it is a walled garden with the message:<br></div><quote><br><div><div class="gmail-col-sm-6 gmail-col-lg-5 gmail-col-lg-offset-1">
<h1>What Happened?</h1>
<p>We have observed an unusual download pattern.</p>
<p>The reason why this might happen:</p>
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<li>Accessing through a proxy server</li>
<li>Having problems downloading a paper</li>
<li>Accidentally downloading a paper too frequently</li>
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Please consider signing in or creating a free account. You can continue
downloading this paper and you will no longer see this page. It also
helps us track reader interest and provide accurate download counts to
our authors and readers.</p>
</div></quote><br></div><div>This seems standard for other visitors who have tried to download even a single paper. My interpretation is that Elsevier (because SSRN and Bepress are now Elsevier) want to monitor and control readers in a walled garden. Unless I am reliably informed otherwise I expect that Elsevier will track all my actions on the site (monitor), probably report them to third parties, form data products out of my actions (monitoring) and also provide a nonobjective set of search results based on whatever Elsevier wants to promote (this is common in walled gardens).<br><br></div><div>Could the Product Marketing Manager inform this list precisely:<br></div><div>* whether visitors can use SSRN/Bepress anonymously without registering?<br></div><div>* what the explicit licence is on the articles (e.g. CC BY)<br></div><div>* whether text and data mining is allowed without Elsevier' permission<br><br></div><div>The answers to all these questions can be single words. If they are not (YES, CC-BY, YES) then I do not regard this as Open Access<br><br></div><div>P.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Chatterji, Promita (ELS-BKY) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchatterji@bepress.com" target="_blank">pchatterji@bepress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">bepress and SSRN Announce Integration Pilot with Columbia and University of Georgia Law Schools<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://bepress%20and%20SSRN%20Announce%20Integration%20Pilot%20with%20Columbia%20and%20University%20of%20Georgia%20Law%20Schools" target="_blank">Bepress</a> and <a href="https://www.ssrn.com/en/" target="_blank">SSRN</a> are pleased to
announce a joint pilot to explore integration between their two platforms. The four-month pilot launches today with the participation of Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library and University of Georgia School of Law’s Library.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Both bepress and SSRN are eager to explore potential solutions to the obstacles that professional schools and their libraries face in promoting their open access scholarship. The initial pilot offers one possible
model for demonstrating the increased reach of legal scholarship when work is available through an open access repository as well as a specialized network of peers, by simplifying population of and aggregating research impact from both platforms.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“We are incredibly excited to launch this project,” stated Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Managing Director at bepress. “It is the first step in our vision to work together with others in the Elsevier ecosystem in
order to better support our community with their open access initiatives.” Columbia Law School Library Director Kent McKeever noted, “this is exactly the kind of synergy that I was hoping to see now that both products are under the Elsevier umbrella.” With
Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress in August 2017, both platforms are now part of the Elsevier portfolio.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">One goal of the pilot is to support open access initiatives by helping libraries quickly populate their institutional repositories. SSRN and bepress will explore ways to easily transfer research articles,
enabling this scholarship to become part of an institution’s open access collections. “Integrating these two platforms will reduce some of the hurdles to making law faculties’ scholarship freely available through open access,” states Carol Watson, Director
of the Law Library at the University of Georgia.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The pilot also tests potential benefits for authors. Bankier states, “we believe that authors should be able to get credit for their readership, regardless of whether an article is downloaded from bepress’s
Digital Commons or SSRN.” As Watson puts it, the integration will lead to a “more accurate assessment of the true impact of their legal scholarship” by harnessing the discovery power that is at the heart of both platforms. SSRN and bepress are leading names
in the law scholarship, with thousands of authors <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Promita Chatterji<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Product Marketing Manager <u></u>
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