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Exploring RePEc: Economics Documentation and Future Trends

Discover the world of RePEc, a comprehensive academic self-documentation project in economics and beyond since 1993. This talk covers its structure, nature, business model, and vast dataset, including working papers, journal articles, software components, and contact details. Learn about its sister project ReLIS and various related services like BibEc and WoPEc. Explore the practical aspects such as usage reporting, citation linking, and the future outlook, including OAI compliance and legal considerations regarding data rights. Join us in understanding the evolving landscape of economic documentation and its interaction with the commercial sector.

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Exploring RePEc: Economics Documentation and Future Trends

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  1. The RePEc database about Economics Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel work partly sponsored by the Joint Information Systems Committee through its Electronic Libraries Programme

  2. Structure of this talk • Theoretical introduction • Practical demonstration • Outlook to the future

  3. The non-nature of RePEc • RePEc is not an e-print archive • RePEc is not a bibliographic service • RePEc is not new, goes back to 1993 • RePEc is not a funded project

  4. The nature of RePEc • RePEc is an academic self-documentation project • Works in economics but the methods could be used elsewhere. There is a sister project ReLIS for library and information science

  5. RePEcbusiness model 1997 • Many archives • archives offer metadata about digital objects (mainly working papers) • One database • The data from all archives forms one single logical database despite the fact that it is held on different servers. • Many services • users can access the data through many interfaces. • providers of archives offer their data to all interfaces at the same time. This provides for an optimal distribution.

  6. WoPEc EconWPA DEGREE S-WoPEc NBER CEPR US Fed in Print IMF OECD MIT University of Surrey CO PAH RePEc is based on 160+ archives

  7. Contents forms one dataset • 85,000 working papers • 35,000 journal articles • 650 software components • 1,300 personal contact details • 5,700 institutional contact details

  8. BibEc and WoPEc Decomate Z39.50 service NEP: New Economics Papers Inomics IDEAS RuPEc EDIRC HoPEc RePEc is used in many services

  9. Now for the practical bit • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

  10. Outlook I • Emphasis way from the document towards the person/institution who provides the document • Usage reporting is key for provider satisfaction. • Citation linking work has started, such work also has great potential to raise provider satisfaction.

  11. Outlook II • now partially OAI compliant (interface to be published soon) • full OAI compliance requires more work on metadata • work on an XML-based “Academic Metadata Format”

  12. Outlook III • More and more interaction with commercial sector • Legal status of rights to the data is uncertain

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