“The publishing giant Elsevier has acquired the Social Science Research Network, an online open-access repository for research. Elsevier said in the announcement that it plans to develop SSRN alongside Mendeley, the company’s own academic social network. Neither SSRN’s user policies nor its leadership will change, Elsevier said. It will still be free for users to submit their papers and download others. Elsevier did not disclose how much it paid to acquire SSRN.”
Further info here: http://www.nature.com/news/social-sciences-preprint-server-snapped-up-by-publishing-giant-elsevier-1.19932
Also on the Elsevier front, Peter Murray-Rust continues to chronicle his frustrated efforts to gain access to research data behind Elsevier’s paywalls.
Thanks for the pointer to that interesting blog… particularly liked this post https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2016/05/23/taxi-ken-and-i-discuss-the-uks-negotiations-with-elsevier/