Here is a year-end post that I received from Gregg Gordon, the President of SSRN, which gives you some background:
SSRN's 16th year was "sweet". The eLibrary (http://ssrn.com/search) has delivered over 41.3 million downloads to date and grown to over 314,000 documents from 149,000 authors. Our CiteReader technology, developed with ITX Corp, has captured 6.4 million references and 6.5 million footnotes. The technology has been expanded to extract references from within footnotes and those references will be displayed on the abstract pages in early 2011. Scholars are finding the links in the References and Citations tabs, on the abstract page, excellent ways to access both the past and future literature in a discipline.
In the near future, we will release Search Within functionality that finds specific information in an existing search result or taxonomy classification. We will also release simplified access to all of the SSRN Rankings of papers, authors and organizations. Over the next few months, we will create subject area networks in Innovation, Religious Studies, and Music and Composition; continuing our interdisciplinary growth in the social sciences and humanities.
Our year-end distribution break is scheduled for Monday, 20 December 2010 through Sunday, 2 January 2011. During the break, SSRN's abstracting eJournals will not be distributed so that we can improve the performance of our servers. We will continue to provide support for downloads, submissions, and subscriptions. For any requests during the break, please contact customer support at UserSupport@SSRN.com or call toll free 877-SSRNHelp (877-777-6435). Outside of the United States, call +1 585 442 8170. We are open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30AM and 6:00PM, United States Eastern.
I am always interested in your feedback about SSRN and our team loves to hear stories about how SSRN has impacted your life. Please contact me at Gregg_Gordon@SSRN.com or use our "Feedback to SSRN" link on most SSRN web pages.
Thank you for your continued support and Happy Holidays to you and your family!
Gregg Gordon
President
Social Science Research Network
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