As we celebrate the yearly Open Access Week, we are proud to announce that RePEc now indexes over one million working papers, as pre-prints are typically called in Economics. Working papers have ...
The mission of RePEc is to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics. An essential part of this is the democratization of access to research, both for the readers to find research and fo...
https://blog.repec.org/2019/07/01/100-countries-contribute-through-repec-archives/
The publication of an article or a working paper is only part of the scientific process. Scrutiny by the scientific community during the peer-review process and later through replication attempts...
https://blog.repec.org/2013/08/09/openness-of-economic-data-and-code/
This guest post was written by Jan Weiland. EconStor is a subject-based repository for economics and business administration maintained by the German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Infor...
https://blog.repec.org/2011/09/15/econstor-a-repec-archive-for-research-from-germany/
The archives listed in RePEc differ in their policies regarding withdrawal of items, or replacement of an old item by a newer one. Some archives, like NBER, permit withdrawals and replacements, w...
When you write a paper, you typically pursue several goals. One is to publish it in a good journal in order to get recognition for your work. The other is to get read and have an impact (and get ...
https://blog.repec.org/2009/05/15/about-self-archiving-your-research/
Open Access Publishing is the free distribution of research, whether it is as a pre-print (working paper) or a peer-reviewed article. Since the creation of the web, more and more journal are choo...
https://blog.repec.org/2009/04/24/the-economics-of-open-access-publishing/
With last week’s additions, RePEc is now carrying bibliographic data from over 1000 archives. This is a good opportunity to give a reminder how data actually makes it to RePEc. Indeed, there is...
https://blog.repec.org/2009/03/10/1000-archives-participating-in-repec/
This guest post was written by Julie Kelly and Louise Letnes. Over the past few months, the papers that make up AgEcon Search have been added to RePEc. All papers are available in full text, and ...
One of the most actively accessed RePEc series is the Boston College Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive. This was the first RePEc series to list software, rather than working papers, j...
https://blog.repec.org/2009/01/16/bc-statistical-software-components-archive/