This blog post was written by Christian Düben. The economic literature is a field comprised of tens of thousands of authors. The American Economic Association alone has more than 20,000 members....
Now that in many universities classes are starting again, and in many cases this is happening through online courses, we thought it would be useful to show how RePEc can help. Of course, as RePEc...
https://blog.repec.org/2020/08/31/repec-can-help-you-with-working-off-campus/
RePEc is not just a bibliographic database, it is also a collection of services that leverage this database and in some cases also add to the data. One such service is EDIRC, a directory of econo...
https://blog.repec.org/2020/06/30/edirc-the-directory-of-economics-institutions/
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...
RePEc seeks to enhance the dissemination of economics research. There are many ways to do this, and an important one is to provide search engines for literature searches. This post discusses two ...
https://blog.repec.org/2020/01/24/using-the-repec-search-engines/
A little more than 20 years ago, the RePEc Author Service was launched (then under the name of HoPEc) as a self-registering service. This allows economists to create an account with RePEc. What f...
https://blog.repec.org/2019/10/03/what-a-repec-author-service-account-is-good-for/
The IDEAS website just went live with a new design. The new layout is configured to keep the functionalities of the website while making it more intuitive for the casual user, and more pleasing t...
https://blog.repec.org/2018/02/15/ideas-inaugurates-new-design/
RePEc is foremost a initiative to enhance the dissemination of economics research. IDEAS is one of several RePEc services that make the RePEc bibliographic database available to anybody. This tut...
https://blog.repec.org/2017/03/23/literature-search-on-ideas-a-tutorial/
Two months ago, we announced a new free RePEc service that allows RePEc users making a fragmentation/annotation of papers and linking whole papers and/or their fragments by scientific relationshi...
https://blog.repec.org/2016/09/13/exploring-the-pre-publication-communication-for-repec-users/
As more and more people are using phones and tablets to surf the web and in particular to consult the RePEc websites, IDEAS has just moved to a new layout that is more friendly to such devices. S...
https://blog.repec.org/2014/12/30/ideas-website-now-mobile-friendly/