Economic Print Repositories
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 93 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences.
| Subjects Covered | Economics |
| Launch Date | 1992: Started as NetEC. 1997: RePEc created. |
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| Managing Entity | Team of volunteers in 93 countries including U.S., Spain, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Romania. Domain hosted at Boston College. |
| Types of Prints Accepted | Working Papers, Journals, Sofware Components, Books, Book Chapters, and more |
| Acquisition Approach | Publishers deposit and RePEc harvests metadata that is supplied by authors on servers. Individual authors can upload via MPRA (Munic Personal RePEc Archive). |
| Additional Notes | Over 1,900 archives from 93 countries have contributed about 2.3 million research pieces from 2,800 journals and 4,500 working paper series |
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholary research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics.
| Subjects Covered | Agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. |
| Launch Date | 1995 |
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| Managing Entity | Cooperative project of the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). |
| Types of Prints Accepted | Conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, theses and dissertations, and pre-prints or post-prints of journal articles. |
| Acquisition Approach | Publishers Deposit and Authors Deposit. |
| Additional Notes | There are no costs involved in searching or downloading material from AgEcon search. There are no charges for posting papers for groups who submit/upload their own content. There is a minimal chart if you need the University of Minnesota to perform any digitization or uploading tasks. |