- Research Papers in Economics
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of
volunteer s in 57 countries to enhance the dissemination ofresearch ineconomics . The "heart " of theproject is a decentralizeddatabase of workingpaper s, preprints,journal articles andsoftware component s. The project started in1997 . Its precursorNetEc dates back to1993 .RePEc provides links to over 275,000 full text articles. Most contributions are freely downloadable, but copyright remains with the author or copyright holder. It is the [http://www.webometrics.info/top200_rep.asp second largest/most visible internet repository] of academic material in the world.
Materials to RePEc can be added through a department or institutional
archive or, if no institutional archive is available, through the Munich Personal RePEc Archive ( [http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/ MPRA] ). Institutions are welcome to join and contribute their materials by establishing and maintaining their own RePEc archive.Leading publishers, such as
Elsevier andSpringer have their economics material listed in RePEc. RePEc collaborates with theAmerican Economic Association 'sEconLit database to providecontent from leading universities' working paper or preprint series to EconLit. Over 700 journals and over 1900 working paper series have registered, for a total 325,000+ articles, 80% of which can be found online.The information in the data base is used to rank the 15,000+ registered economists.
Robert Barro is currently the highest ranked economist, followed byJoseph Stiglitz andAndrei Shleifer .Use RePEc
The following web sites offer various services provided by RePEc:
* [http://econpapers.repec.org/ EconPapers] - Economics at your fingertips. EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.
* [http://ideas.repec.org/ IDEAS] - the complete RePEc database at your disposal. Working papers, journal articles, software components, author information, directory of institutions.
* [http://nep.repec.org/ NEP] (New Economics Papers) - Free email notification of new downloadable working papers for over 40 specific fields. NEP Archives are available.
* [http://authors.repec.org/ RePEc Author Service] - Author registration
* [http://edirc.repec.org/ EDIRC] -Economics Department s,Institute s andResearch Center s in theWorld .
* [http://logec.repec.org/ LogEc] - Detailed access statistics for RePEc items and authors.
* [http://citec.repec.org/CitEc Citec] -Citation s from items in the RePEc database.
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/ WebEc] - free information on economics on the web (WWW Virtual Library)
* [http://www.inomics.com/cgi/show Inomics] - downloadable working papers integrated with information on economics conferences, job information, and Internet search for economists
* [http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/ MPRA] (Munich Personal RePEc Archive) - Personal repository for working papers in economics.
* [http://spz.socionet.ru/index-en.shtml SPZ] - An online workplace for researchers, tutors and students within the RePEc information space.
* [http://socionet.ru/ Socionet] - A Russian (and Russianlanguage ) implementation of the RePEc method and database as the collective information environment for thesocial science s. Database customization and filtration by a "personal information robot".ource
* http://repec.org/
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