Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 441,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 355,200 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of fee-based partner publications.
SSRN merged with Elsevier in May 2016.