ANNOUNCEMENT AND/OR REMINDER OF THE FREE WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK'S (SSRN's) ECONOMIC RESEARCH NETWORK (ERN)

• 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)
  
  

• 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

• 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
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Steven G. Medema
Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
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