www.ssrn.com

Who needs a library when you have the Social Science Research Network? I only recently discovered it this year and its the bomb for research. Most Electronic Journal search engines are ugly, slow and difficult to use. This site only collects recent papers in .pdf - and most of them are frear AND they have a standard 'suggested citation'. I've been reading 'Digital Capital' today, which is published by Harvard Law School, and SSRN so fits the model of the er, whatever model Amazon is. It collects papers from a variety of sources and provides the infrastructure to make them EASILY accessible.

Wow. EBSCOhost can kiss my ass - although, admittedly, what makes it useful is that it has scans (!) of old papers. Lazy correspondence students like me don't have to set foot into libraries and still have excellent research - in fact, I'd suggest that our research tends to be more encyclopaedic than someone who limited themselves to a brick & mortar library.

My legal research paper is on the socio-economics of digital piracy - and look what I found!

Peitz, Martin and Waelbroeck, Patrick, "Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature" (November 2003). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1071. http://ssrn.com/abstract=466063

Kick ass - and, most importantly, its recent.

(Oh, and I saw Linklater's Before Sunset (2004) - amazing btw - on Sunday and Somedude(TM)'s Saved! (2004) tonight. Just thought I'd share)

Wow. Tuesdays are good after all.