spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "ssrn",3  "name": "SSRN",4  "aliases": ["Social Science Research Network"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Elsevier", "slug": "elsevier", "website": "https://www.elsevier.com" },6  "homepage_url": "https://www.ssrn.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://www.elsevier.com/products/ssrn-preprint-services",8  "product_type": "platform",9  "product_status": "active",10  "summary": "Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read",11  "description": "SSRN (originally the Social Science Research Network) is a preprint repository owned by Elsevier where scholars post working papers and other early-stage research. It is organized into discipline networks (economics, finance, law, political science, medicine, computer science and others) and subject-matter eJournals, with author pages, download and citation counts, rankings of authors and institutions, e-mail alerts and conference and institutional research paper series. Posting and downloading are free; institutions pay for branded research paper series and related services, and some journals run early-view partnerships through the platform.\n\nIn economics and finance SSRN is the default venue for circulating working papers and for establishing priority before journal publication, and its download statistics are widely watched. Papers undergo a light classification review rather than peer review, versions can be replaced by the author, and the site's heavy use of bot protection means it cannot be harvested programmatically and offers no public API, which makes OpenAlex or RePEc the better sources for bibliometric work on the same papers.",12  "capabilities": ["Free posting of preprints and working papers", "Discipline research networks and subject eJournals", "Author pages with download and citation metrics", "Rankings of authors, papers and institutions", "E-mail alerts for new papers", "Institutional research paper series and conference series"],13  "workflows": ["Circulating a finance working paper before journal submission", "Distributing a department's working-paper series"],14  "advantages": ["Free to post and read", "Standard venue in economics, finance and law", "Visible download metrics"],15  "limitations": ["No public API and strong bot protection", "Light classification review, not peer review", "Owned by a commercial publisher"],16  "prerequisites": ["Free account to submit"],17  "audiences": ["Economists, finance and legal scholars", "Departments running working-paper series"],18  "alternatives": ["arxiv", "repec", "osf", "zenodo"],19  "comparison_notes": "arXiv is the non-profit preprint server for the quantitative sciences including economics and q-fin, with an open API; RePEc aggregates economics working papers from institutional archives with public metadata; OSF and Zenodo are general repositories that assign DOIs. SSRN's strength is its community and metrics in economics, finance and law.",20  "categories": [{ "slug": "research-dissemination", "primary": true }],21  "tags": ["preprints", "working-papers", "economics", "finance"],22  "use_cases": ["write-papers"],23  "operating_systems": ["web"],24  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],25  "interfaces": ["web"],26  "deployment_models": ["saas"],27  "integrations": ["Elsevier journals (early-view partnerships)", "RePEc (SSRN papers indexed by other services)"],28  "data_formats": ["PDF"],29  "languages": [],30  "source_model": "proprietary",31  "pricing_model": ["free", "enterprise"],32  "self_hostable": false,33  "sources": [34    { "url": "https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/", "type": "official_site", "title": "SSRN Home Page", "supports": ["name", "summary", "capabilities"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },35    { "url": "https://www.elsevier.com/products/ssrn-preprint-services", "type": "official_site", "title": "SSRN Preprint Services | Elsevier", "supports": ["vendor", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }36  ],37  "confidence": "medium",38  "uncertainty_note": "ssrn.com returns 403 to command-line clients and standard fetchers; the homepage was read through an extraction service. Fee details for institutional services are not published on the pages checked, so pricing_url is omitted.",39  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",40  "depth": "standard",41  "editorial_status": "reviewed",42  "visibility": "public",43  "featured": false,44  "author": "batch-E"45}46