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October 23, 2007
Social Science Research Network provides site for Humanists to share ongoing research
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has created a way for Humanists (i.e. philosophers, classicists, and literary scholars) to share ongoing research online.
SSRN's new endeavor, the Humanities Research Network (HRN), allows authors to upload abstracts and working papers and review similar uploads from other authors. In the past research was shared among humanists through emails and mailing lists.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education on October 22, 2007, Lesley Dean-Jones, a professor of classics at the University of Texas - Austin and director of the Classics Research Network (a part of the HRN) said that the HRN promises to be like "a huge ongoing conference, where you never miss the presentation of the paper you want to go to."
The HRN hopes to fill a hole in the world of scholarly humanities research by allowing scholars to share their papers and research in a timely, free, and open way. For more details on this development see the Chronicle article here (password required): http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/10/430n.htm. And visit the HRN at SSRN's sites for English and American Literature (http://www.ssrn.com/lit/index.html), philosophy (http://www.ssrn.com/prn-/index.html), and classics (http://www.ssrn.com/crn/index.html).
-posted by Tom Lamb
Posted by colldev at October 23, 2007 09:33 PM