The academic, business and policy worlds currently through quite a bit of upheaval as people work from home, classes have moved on-line or have been canceled. People have to adapt to working diff...
On 12 May 1997, a group of people met at the University of Surrey at the initiative of Thomas Krichel, then a graduate student and lecturer there. The topic was to discuss Krichel’s proposal of...
The RePEc community is looking for a volunteer to head a committee on quality control for journals admitted to be indexed in RePEc. Here is some background. There is a growing number of journal-l...
https://blog.repec.org/2016/06/13/quality-control-committee-looking-for-volunteer/
Alexander Harin has been contributing to RePEc for many years and in many ways, including as editor of two NEP reports, NEP-ACC (Accounting and Auditing) and NEP-UPT (Utility Models and Prospect ...
https://blog.repec.org/2015/08/28/volunteer-recognition-alexander-harin/
RePEc relies on volunteer work to function, and many are contributing. One can help in small and big way. Simplice Asongu is one of those who have embraced RePEc and contribute in big ways. He is...
https://blog.repec.org/2015/05/01/volunteer-appreciation-simplice-asongu/
As other RePEc services, the citation project CitEc is based on the volunteer work of the developers. Following the business model of the open source movement, CitEc is thus able to work without ...
Laura Ştefānescu is Professor at the Faculty of Financial Management Accounting of Craiova, Spiru Haret University, Romania, where she teaches Elements of Information Technology, Business Infor...
https://blog.repec.org/2013/09/12/volunteer-appreciation-laura-tefnescu/
Hosting RePEc services has been both a technical and an organizational challenge. Historically, the first hosting of what was to become RePEc goes back to late 1992. Manchester Computing Center, ...
https://blog.repec.org/2012/12/13/cloud-computing-and-repec/
Since 2005 one of the main RePEc computers, the one handling New Economic Papers (NEP) has been housed at the State University of New York at Oswego. NEP handles the weekly email notifications of...
https://blog.repec.org/2012/08/26/nep-now-sponsored-by-penn-state/
RePEc’s aim is to improve the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. A critical part of this mission is to offer free services, but with the consequence that it cannot gat...
https://blog.repec.org/2011/08/20/volunteer-involvement-in-repec/