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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

How you can use RePEc   |   Placing your materials in RePEc   |   Major participants and activity
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 30 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. Any institution is welcome to join in contributing its research materials. All RePEc material is freely available.

The RePEc database holds over 150,000 items of interest, over 55,000 of which are available online:
91,000 working papers
50,000 journal articles
725 software components
2,600 author contact listings
6,000 institutional contact listings
 
Bookmark this page to easily locate our services to the economics profession.

How you can use RePEc:

The following web sites offer all or part of the RePEc database for you to browse or search:
IDEAS IDEAS: the complete RePEc database at your disposal. Working papers, journal articles, software components, author information, directory of institutions.
 
EconPapers 		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.
HoPEc HoPEc: Author registration and directory services
NEP NEP (New Economics Papers): Free email notification of new downloadable working papers for over 40 specific fields. Mirrors: UK   USA   Japan

 

edirc EDIRC: Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
Mirrors: UK   USA   Japan   Russia

 

WoPEc WoPEc: Full-text downloadable working papers and journal articles.
Mirrors: UK   USA   Japan

 

BibEc BibEc: bibliographic information on (non-downloadable) working papers and journal articles.
Mirrors: UK   USA   Japan
WebEc WebEc: free information on economics on the web (WWW Virtual Library)
Mirrors: UK   USA   Japan
Inomics Inomics: downloadable working papers integrated with information on economics conferences, job information, and Internet search for economists
Socionet Socionet: A Russian (and Russian language) implementation of the RePEc method and database as the collective information environment for the social sciences. Database customization and filtration by a "personal information robot".
Decomate Decomate: another search engine for RePEc
LogEc LogEc: Detailed access statistics for RePEc items and authors.
IDEAS, EDIRC, HoPEc, WoPEc and BibEc are highlighted in Google's Web Directory for Economics.

Placing your materials in RePEc

Authors: register yourself and link to your works listed in RePEc: HoPEc
Providers: please note these restrictions on use of RePEc data
What RePEc is all about: the Guildford protocol.
Full documentation of the file syntax: about ReDIF (Resource Description Information Format).
To make it easy: Step by step instructions to create a working paper archive.
To make it even easier: templates for copying and pasting.
Once you are participating: Tips and tricks for RePEc archive maintainers.
To keep up to date on current events in RePEc: the repec-admin mailing list.
For more information about RePEc's future direction: RePEc documents.
Looking for scripts to automate access to research information? See RePEc scripts.
To contact us: email repec@repec.org.

Recent activity

A LogEc list of the top 25 RePEc series last month (in terms of the number of file downloads) is available.

Although IDEAS is only one of the RePEc services providing access to these archives, information on last month's activity on the IDEAS archive is indicative of the worldwide interest in the materials they contain.

Major participants

Among the many participating institutions providing over 1000 RePEc series, the largest contributing RePEc archives are:
RePEc emerged from the NetEc group, which received support for its WoPEc project between 1996-1999 by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, as part of its Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
Analog 4.11 for Macintosh Recent access statistics for http://repec.org
This page maintained by Kit Baum and Christian Zimmermann. Last modified 07 September 2001.