RePEc in June 2019

July 3, 2019

After all those years, RePEc is still enjoying a healthy growth. Last month, we welcomed the following new archives: European Xtramile Centre of African Studies, Business Strategies, Russian Journal of Industrial Economics, Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia, City University of Hong Kong, Shanlax, CEREDEC, Administrative Consulting, Russian State University of the Humanities, The Economics of Science journal. With this crop, we now have RePEc archives in over 100 countries. We also counted 395,439 file downloads and 1,798,030 abstract views last month. Finally, we passed the following milestones:

900,000 working papers
9,000 series and journals

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100 countries contribute through RePEc archives

July 1, 2019

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 for researchers to make their works accessible. This means that no matter where you work, you should have the same access to research. In that respect, we believe RePEc has made great strides. For example, our logs indicate that we have visitors to our sites from every country (including Antarctica and North Korea).

To get material added to RePEc, an institution typically opens a so-called local RePEc archive that contains information about its publications. We are proud to announce that with the recent addition of Armenia and the Central African Republic we now have such RePEc archives in over 100 countries. As some of those over 2000 archives aggregate material from several institutions, the count is even higher for the indexed works.

Here is the listing of the 101 countries to date that have opened at least one RePEc archive. Here is the listing of the current archives. And finally, here are the instructions for opening a local RePEc archive.

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