I think it is an open question whether centralized or distributed archiving
will dominate. Maybe both can coexist. A good copyright agreement ought
to allow both. Then SSRN can pursue its centralized strategy, and
individual authors/schools can pursue distributed strategies. The bet of
the law reviews, and the for-profit peer-review journals as well, is that
distributed archiving is not a threat (which is why they allow posting to a
personal web page), but centralized archiving such as SSRN provides is.
As long as authors keep sufficient copyright, they can use one, the other,
or both. That's my goal here.
Bernie
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Stanford Law School fax: 650-725-0684
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bblack_at_stanford.edu cell: 650-218-0626
papers on SSRN at:
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