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)
ADVANTAGESHOW TO SUBSCRIBE AND SUBMIT PAPERS
- 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
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
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Steven G. Medema
Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
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