Social Science Research Network
SSRN is a free web resource for scholarly social science literature (registration is required.
SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 188,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 151,200 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
You can search the whole database or go into one of the more specific research areas and browse the recent additons.
Institution ranking
If you go into: Management Research > Top Papers > Top Institutions > Top International Business Schools
Here you will find the ranking which on 11/06/08 showed the top schools by number of downloads, the top10 being:
1 London Business School
2 IESE Business School
3 City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
4 Tilburg University - Center and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration 5 Erasmus University Rotterdam
6 University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
7 Stockholm School of Economics
8 University of Amsterdam - Business School
9 University of Zurich
10 INSEAD
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Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.
Posted by: College Research Paper | 19 October 2009 at 08:58
I appreciate the work of all people who share information with others.
Posted by: College Research Paper | 09 January 2010 at 06:57