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From: admin <admin@SSRN.COM> Date: October 18, 2007 5:20:26 PM PDT (CA) To: SSRN-SUPER@PUBLISHER.SSRN.COM Subject: SSRN Announces New Humanities Research Network (HRN) Reply-To: admin@SSRN.COM

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is pleased to announce the creation of the Humanities Research Network (HRN). HRN will provide a world-wide, online community for research in all areas of Humanities, following the model of the other subject matter networks within SSRN (http://www.ssrn.com).

We expect HRN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in humanities, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship. Initially, HRN will begin with the following networks:

HRN CLASSIC RESEARCH NETWORK Director: Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin

HRN ENGLISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH NETWORK Director: Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin

HRN PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH NETWORK Directors: Lawrence Becker, Hollins University and Brie Gertler, University of Virginia

The abstracting eJournals for each of these networks are listed below. You can view the expandable Humanities Research Network taxonomy at http://SSRN.com/browse.

SSRN eLibrary All abstracts and papers, together with bibliographic data and author contact information, will be included in the searchable SSRN electronic library at http://papers.ssrn.com.

The SSRN eLibrary contains more than 164,000 papers by 82,000 authors, including 131,000 full text papers. The eLibrary can be accessed at http:// papers.ssrn.com. Downloads from the SSRN eLibrary are running at an annual rate of about 4 million, with over 16 million downloads since SSRN was founded in 1994.

HRN CLASSIC RESEARCH NETWORK Director: Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin To view all journals, click on the following link: http://www.ssrn.com/update/crn/crn_jrl.html To subscribe to all of the journals (with one click) in HRN Classic Research Network: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=CRN-all-inclusive-journal To view all the papers in HRN Classic Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/link/HRN-Classics-Research-Network.html

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HRN ENGLISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH NETWORK Director: Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin To view all journals, click on the following link: http://www.ssrn.com/update/lit/lit_jrl.html To subscribe to all of the journals (with one click) in HRN English & American Literature Research Network: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=LIT-all-inclusive-journal To view all the papers in HRN English & American Literature Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/link/HRN-English-American-Lit-Network.html

American Literature View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-American-Literature.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-American-Literature

Children's Literature View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Childrens-Literature.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Childrens-Literature

Disability Studies View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Disability-Studies.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Disability-Studies

English & Commonwealth Literature View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Commonwealth-Lit

Ethnic Studies View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Ethnic-Studies.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Ethnic-Studies

Law & Literature View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Law-Literature.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Law-Literature

Literary Theory & Criticism View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Lit-Theory-Criticism

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Post-Colonial Studies in Literature & Culture View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Post-Colonial-Studies.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Post-Colonial-Studies

Women, Gender, & Literature View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Women-Gender-Literature.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=English-Women-Gender-Literature

HRN PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH NETWORK Directors: Lawrence Becker, Hollins University and Brie Gertler, University of Virginia To view all journals, click on the following link: http://www.ssrn.com/update/prn-/prn_jrl.html To subscribe to all of the journals (with one click) in HRN Philosophy Research Network: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=PRN-all-inclusive-journal To view all the papers in HRN Philosophy Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/link/HRN-Philosophy-Research-Network.html

Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Aesthetics-Philosophy-Art.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Aesthetics-Philosophy-Art

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Ethics View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Ethics.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Ethics

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