I wanted to apologize for my earlier post -- I have opinions about
for-profit and open-access publishing, but, as moderator of this list, I
should be more careful about how I say things. My message was too flippant
and easily misunderstood. I'm sorry and I will be more careful in the
future.

I'm certainly all for as many outlets as possible for historians of
economics to share their work.

Humberto Barreto

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 1:38 PM Kevin D. Hoover <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Of course.  The more places you post your work, the higher the likelihood
> that someone will see it.
>
> Kevin Hoover
>
> On 1/29/23 8:14 AM, Humberto Barreto wrote:
>
> It is free to upload your paper to SSRN and you should take advantage of
> this, but (cue Darth Vader music), it's owned by Elsevier.
>
> An alternative, which you should also use to maximize visibility for your
> work, is
>
> https://econpapers.repec.org/
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://econpapers.repec.org/__;!!OToaGQ!pW4dz4g73QC4imCanX4XcTJtKEHu0k_mrU3VCxcWk8bpV5iHQ02b4KRq-1WMz3GGwgvs_l1IOXpitpCplE-60w$>
>
> May the Force be with you,
>
> B
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 8:03 AM Kevin Hoover <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> *THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER SERIES*
>>
>> ANNOUNCEMENT AND/OR REMINDER OF THE *FREE* WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE
>> SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK'S (SSRN's) ECONOMIC RESEARCH NETWORK (ERN)
>>
>>
>> *ADVANTAGES*
>>
>>    - A FREE AND OPEN FORUM
>> *+ *open to all interested parties at no cost to the user
>>    + accepts papers and abstracts in all areas of history of economics
>>    and related fields (anything that might interest historians of economics)
>>
>>    - WIDE DISTRIBUTION FOR YOUR WORK
>>    + an opportunity to expose your work to a broad spectrum of scholars
>>    within and beyond the history-of-economics community
>>    + current Statistics:
>>         * 3,991 papers posted
>>         * mean downloads:  181 per paper
>>         * median downloads: 77 per paper
>>
>>    - A CONVENIENT ARCHIVE
>>    + easy to upload your papers
>>    + easy download other scholar's papers
>>    + easy to check statistics of abstract views and downloads
>>
>>    - EASY TO KEEP UP WITH CURRENT WORK
>>    + papers announced via the ERN History of Economics eJournal -- an
>>    e-mail "eJournal" with links to download abstracted papers
>>
>>    - NO BARRIER TO CIRCULATION IN OTHER  SERIES OR SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION
>>    + despite the title "eJournal," this is simply an announcement of
>>    working paper abstracts
>>    + SSRN does not take copyright nor object to publication in other
>>    working paper series
>>    + posting to the SSRN website does not preclude to subsequent
>>    publication of papers in refereed journals (in fact, most journal articles
>>    were previously circulated in some working paper series)
>>
>>
>> *HOW TO SUBSCRIBE AND SUBMIT PAPERS*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - GO TO  *SSRN.com *AND CLICK ON *Subscribe *AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
>>    - LINK YOUR PAPER TO THE * ERN History of Economics eJournal*
>>    + follow links to
>> *Economics Research Network + *go to ,
>> *ERN Subject Matter Journals + *check box on *History of Economics
>>    eJournal*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *MAXIMIZING YOUR VISIBILITY*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO UP TO TWELVE (12) JOURNALS
>>    + for example, list a paper on the history of demand theory to
>>    various Microeconomics eJournals and to the  Philosophy and Methodology of
>>    Economics eJournal
>>    + experience shows that history authors receive many downloads from
>>    non-historians when papers are listed broadly
>>    + broad listing is good the individual author's visibility *and also*
>>    is a public good that raises the  the visibility of the history of
>>    economics more generally in the wider profession
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin D. Hoover
>> Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Steven G. Medema
>> Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
>> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Prof. Humberto Barreto
> DePauw University
> 765-365-4099
>
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765-365-4099

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