If you are a Fordham Law faculty member and need assistance setting up an online journal alert using these or any other systems, please contact the Reference Desk (refdesk@law.fordham.edu or 212-636-6908), or your Faculty Liaison.
If you need further assistance with using SSRN, contact Carlie McCarthy (212-636-6904 or cmccarthy@law.fordham.edu).
If you do not see the following box next to the research network that interests you:
you may need to make sure you have joined the Fordham network.
To do so, click "Buy/Join" next to a network that you know Fordham Law should have access to (Legal Scholarship Network, Cognitive Science Research Network, Corporate Governance Research Network, Economics Research Network, Financial Economics Network, and Political Science Network).
At the top of the next page, after "Click here to check if your Organization has purchased a site subscription," click "Find."
In the Search Criteria box, enter "Fordham" and click "Search."
Scroll down to Fordham University and select "See Departments."
Scroll down to School of Law, and select "Join." Then click the boxes to the right of the Networks to which you would like to subscribe, and click Submit.
To subscribe to an SSRN eJournal, you must first log into your SSRN account on the SSRN homepage. If you do not have an SSRN account, create one using your Fordham Law login, by clicking on Create Account at the top right of the page.
After logging into your SSRN User Headquarters, click on the "Subscriptions" link on the left hand menu.
Then scroll down and click on the "Click Here" link for the Network in which you are interested (probably Legal Scholarship Network). Fordham Law also has access to the Cognitive Science Research Network, Corporate Governance Research Network, Economics Research Network, Financial Economics Network, and Political Science Network.
Choose your desired journals by clicking the plus sign next to a collection, or the check box to the left of an individual title.
The function of different symbols on the journal list is as follows:
