Sorry, but law academia at large deserves this. _Even now_ Bainbridge makes fun of folks like @gowder.io who saw this coming when Elsevier took over.
No one in the social sciences where SSRN originated is gnashing their teeth bc they built alternatives like RePeC, @socarxiv.bsky.social or PsyArXiv
Sebastian Karcher
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
