MyIDEAS: your personal space on IDEAS

We are proud to introduce an important new feature to the IDEAS website. MyIDEAS is a personal space for the IDEAS user where she can save the papers and articles found on the site and organize them into folders. Think of it like navigating an online store and selecting items for purchase. The difference is that your “cart” is a list of references that you can sort at will into categories you can name.

In addition, MyIDEAS allows you to follow additions to JEL codes, series and journals, as well as what authors may have added to their RePEc profiles.

To use this new service, authentication is necessary, which happens like for others services through an account in the RePEc Author Service, Once cleared, the user finds on all relevant IDEAS pages the option to “add” or “follow” the displayed person or item. This works thanks to a cookie whose sole purpose is to identify the user as he navigates the site. It does, however, not track the user. Contents of the MyIDEAS accounts remain entirely private.

We hope users will find this service useful and welcome comments for improvements or new features.

Update (January 26): Following several requests, two features have been added: one can put annotations on one’s bibliographics listings, and the latter can be exported in various formats.

2 Responses to MyIDEAS: your personal space on IDEAS

  1. mooms says:

    Great Christian!
    Announced on #Twitter @Rep_Ec Still in beta, followers welcome.
    Best, Marius.

  2. Gray says:

    Reblogged this on Pseudo-true News and commented:
    I just discovered this service and am pretty excited about it. We’ll see how well it works over time, but I’ve wanted to follow individual authors in RePEc for a while (I even wrote a script a few years ago to scrape pages and print out diffs, but never maintained it).

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