SSRN: How to select multiple e-journals

 

During the deposit process on SSRN and in addition to selecting the collection HEC Paris Research Paper Series, you can select one or more (up to 12) other e-Journals to increase your visibility. This approach puts your work in front of as many thematic pages on SSRN as possible, and sometimes on newsletters sent to subscribers (as is the case for the HEC Paris e-Journal collection).

How to select them?

Simply select the topics that interest you from the list provided under the e-Journal Classification field of the registration form. SSRN offers additional information for each e-Journal, that you can view by mousing over the selection.

Below is an example of a selection in Corporate Finance e-Journals

 

 

 

 

SSRN: How to become visible in the HEC Paris Research Paper Series

To be ‘visible’ on the HEC Paris page of on SSRN is to gain visibility on SSRN, and also on search engines such as Google and Google Scholar. To do this, you need to select the collection on your deposit form when you submit a paper to SSRN.

Specifically, you must select the HEC Paris collection in the field labeled ‘e-journal classification’, which offers two ways to access HEC Paris:

– In the SEARCH box, type ‘HEC Paris’ and select your department.

OR

– Below, in the SEARCH field, tick ‘Management Research Network’ and then ‘MRN Business School Research Papers’ then ‘HEC’… then select your department.

Below are screenshots showing the two ways to find the collection:

The ‘HEC Paris Research Paper Series’

HEC Paris launched its own SSRN collection in January 2013, called the ‘HEC Paris Research Paper Series.’  Thanks to the support of researchers, professors and collaborators, Hec Paris  has managed to rise from 33rd to 14th place  in terms of the total number of publication downloads in the last 12 months. (data acquired from SSRN rankings)

This year, 101 documents have been deposited in the repository, compared to 52 in 2012; an increase by almost double, placing HEC Paris in 15th place in terms of new documents uploaded.

The complete collection of 568 documents, of which at least one author is affiliated with HEC Paris today represents 161,900 downloads – an average of 285 downloads per document and 26 citations per author .

To enable HEC Paris to maintain or even improve its ranking and to allow authors to improve their visibility, it is important to continue this trend and increase the number of submissions. The library is at the disposal of academics who have any questions about the legal aspects of copyright relating to pre-prints or technical aspects of deposit on SSRN . Contact: Lydia Tournaire .

HEC Paris Ranking on SSRN since January 2013 ( Based on total new downloads on the last 12 months)

Number of new material since January 2013

Can you submit a forthcoming paper on SSRN ?

Yes, you can!

A forthcoming article, (an article with confirmed publication in the press) may be deposited on SSRN under the terms of copyright according to each specific journal or publisher as a pre or post –print version. For copyright rules specific to each review, you can visit Sherpa Romeo for reference, or view some of our previous blog posts

The screen shot example below shows a summary of the copyright policies for the Journal of Economic Theory.

This review permits the submission of pre-print (ie pre- referral ) on all websites or open access sites, post -print ( ie final draft post- referral) but does not allow the editors’ final PDF pdf version to be uploaded.

Do not hesitate to contact the library with any questions about forthcoming articles on SSRN .
When querying information collected on the Sherpa / Romeo site, we carefully study journal guidelines available on their website or, if necessary, we ask them to let us know directly.

Have you heard of CitNetExplorer?

What is CitNetExplorer?

CitNetExplorer is ‘a software tool for visualizing and analyzing citation networks of scientific publications.’

The software allows the user to import citation networks straight from the Web of Science database, for example, which HEC subscribes to, alongside citation imports from millions of other publications and citations.

These networks can then be explored interactively. The user is able to identify related publications and cited works using the graphic, find direct and indirect citation relations and apply different algorithms to limit results, such as by publication date or to identify connected components. They can also be exported in Pajek format for further consultation.

Why use CitNetExplorer?

CitNetExplorer uses citations to identify relationships between different publications or authors. This makes it possible to:

• Analyze or follow developments in a specific research domain over time.
• Identify the literature available on a specific research topic.
• Explore the range publications from a researcher.
• Review literature in a given field

For a tutorial showing how to use this software, click here

To download the software, click here

Cairn – new international site and user interface

Cairn is a collection of humanities and social sciences publications in French, which the HEC library subscribes to.

Created in September 2005 by four Belgian and French publishers, today Cairn offers the most comprehensive collection of publications to the francophone world.

In 2014, they expect to hold 400 journals, around 4,000 eBooks and more than 200,000 full-text articles and book chapters online, from major French, Belgian and Swiss publishers.

They have recently introduced two new functions:

• A new ‘cleaner’ interface offering the ability to search by theme from the home page (as pictured)
• An international version of its site, offering the same service to English speakers, launched with the support of the CNL (The French Centre National du Livre).

This should allow this content to become more visible and accessible to non–francophone scholars, as no understanding of the French language is required, and should help promote Cairn’s popularity to at least that equal to that achieved by its existing French site which received over 20 million views last year.

Do not hesitate to contact the library for further help on this resource.

On The Future Of Statistical Languages

Seth Brown, a data scientist in the telecommunications industry, has recently written an article on his blog entitled ‘On The Future Of Statistical Languages’

This article analyses the current state of statistical languages in use, and gives a justified response in predicting the future path in this field.

There currently exists a crossover between programming and statistical languages, with most statistics languages containing limited programming functions and vice versa. In order for this area to further develop, bridges need to be built to improve this crossover and make each area less exclusive, with a view to creating ‘an efficient, modern data analysis workflow’

Taking the authors example, use of languages ‘R’ and ‘Python’ amongst others, and the need to transfer between them top complete different tasks within the framework of the same project is inefficient. Whilst not intending to critique the current languages on offer, the author goes on to advocate ‘rich data analysis API no top of a more general open source programming language’.

But what does this mean for the future?

New inventions, technologies and increased reliance on digital devices mean that the amount of data collected is growing exponentially. To this end, the author proposes languages to focus on the statistical side, and to leave ‘the nuts and bolts’ of language design to its own experts. The language needs to be easy to understand, and approachable for students/statisticians/scientists using it so that they can build on the data collected and methodology instead of focusing on the language.

It should be free. Similar to current examples such as MATLAB, SPSS and Stata, to prevent monopolization and ensure that data can be shared across platforms and research can be advanced, avoiding as the author suggests, ‘The Microsoft Word problem’.

New tools should not be limited by domain specific languages or sunken-cost projects – as the Haskell case has proved.

The author then, suggests that going forward, ‘Python is the most obvious choice’ as it is currently already widely used, and already has tools in place. But even this needs improving in terms of accessibility to non-programmers, adopting a more user friendly environment, and deeper reach into academia, and thus instigate the construction of the programming-statistical bridge.

‘On The Future Of Statistical Languages’ / Seth Brown. 18th December 2013. On the blog “Dr. Bunsen“

Get the right info : create your own news feed on your mobile device

You can now avoid trawling through articles that hold no personal interest, by personalising your news feed on your mobile device.

There are many apps available for Apple, Android and Windows devices that can help you do this; for example Feedly, Flipboard, Zite, YouMag and Google Currents, to name but a few

                    

Let’s take Feedly as an example

Feedly is an application designed to “deliver all your favorite content in one place” by making contecnt from news sites, magazines, feeds, tumblr blogs, YouTube, Vimeo etc available all in one place.

First, download it from the app store for free

When setting up your content, you can select by subject area, and by language by sliding the search menu out from the right hand side of the screen

You can equally search for a specific publication, or content from the web

To add content to your feed, select the publication, and then touch the ‘ + ‘ to the right of the publication

You can organise your content as you add it, into subject area categories

Equally, you can flag articles to read later, or further explore the publication by following the corresponding sections in the menu available from the left hand side of the screen.

When you launch the app, your home page news feed will now contain articles from publications you have subscribed to.
Tap an article to read it in full, or sort your news feed by sector using the left hand menu.

     

For more information and step by step procedures to help set up these applications, consult this guide!

Datamonitor Reports

How to find Datamonitor reports ?

Through the HEC Library’s databases, you can gain access to Datamonitor reports on specific companies.

Datamonitor reports (also known as Marketline reports) offer market intelligence and data analysis reports on over 6000 of the world’s leading corporations, so that strategic and operational decisions to be made informatively.

These reports contain information on companies, industries and countries with international coverage of the public and private domain. As well as:

• SWOT analysis  (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
• Market research
• Country profiles
• News, rumors and financial transactions
• Lists of companies by industry as well as stock index
• Analysis and comparison of macroeconomic, socio-economic and demographic data from different countries.
• Historical and forecast data in a format available for export.

To access these reports, connect first to ‘Business Source Complete’ or ‘MarketLine’ via the Library website

Click on “Electronic Resources” -> “Databases A-Z” -> and Find “Business Source Complete“

Enter the name of the company in the ‘search’ field – Take ‘Adidas‘ for example

In the ‘publication type’ drop down menu, select ‘SWOT analysis’

Launch your search

From the results page,  select the Datamonitor report on your required company

To access the full text, click ‘PDF Full text’ to initiate the download, and view the report as below

A similar procedure is applicable via Marketline

Type the name of your company in the ‘Search’ bar (Let’s continue with the Adidas example) and select ‘Companies’ in the drop down menu to the right hand side.

Select your required company from the list of results that appears

Click ‘Download Full Report‘ to view the full report in PDF format

For more assistance, do not hesitate to contact the Library 🙂

EbscoHost Alerts

Get email alerts for new publications on specific subjects!

Did you know that using the EbscoHost platform, such as through Business Source Complete, you can create search alerts for new publications on a particular subject?

For example, you can set up alerts for:

– Key word(s) searches
– Specific themes
– A prior saved search
– Articles by a specific author
– Articles from a specific journal
– Industry, company profiles and country reports
– Dissertations, books and working papers

Alerts are available on the following platforms:

– Business Source Complete

– Moteur EDS

– Vente & Gestion

– Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Collection

– Entrepreneurial Studies Source

– Econlit

– PsyArticles

– PsycInfo

Setting up email alerts 

Simply access the database on the HEC Library website and set up your search, as below.

In this case, let’s search for ‘Luxury Strategy‘

Then Click  the “Create Alert” button to the right of the search button.

You will be presented with this screen, with options to refine your search terms, and define the frequency of alert, publication date of articles and presentation of results.

To create the alert, simply click  the “Save Alert’’ yellow button

Or, equally, copy and paste the RSS feed into a Feed provider.

*N.B.*

You have to sign into EbscoHost to set up alerts. Do so using your HEC email address.