SSRN
Tomorrow's Research Today

SSRN is an open-access preprint server and research paper repository hosting over 1.5 million full-text papers across 69 academic disciplines. It allows researchers and authors to share preprints, working papers, book chapters, dissertations, and peer-reviewed articles with the scholarly community. The platform facilitates rapid dissemination of early-stage and published research in fields ranging from economics and law to medicine and computer science.
Authors upload preprints, working papers, and other research outputs to SSRN's platform, where they are indexed and made freely accessible to readers across 69 disciplines.
Academic researchers, scholars, and authors across disciplines
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Elsevier / SSRN
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