RePEc now helps you find a seminar speaker

December 31, 2020

RePEc inaugurates just in time for New Year’s resolutions a new tool that allows to find seminar speakers. Current criteria are 1) field of research, 2) location, 3) gender, 4) seniority. This tool should help seminar organizers identify speakers that they may not have thought of. The same tool could also be used to identify peer reviewers, organize workshops, or find co-authors.

We are open to suggestions on how to improve this tool. It relies on information contained in RePEc, foremost the fact that an author is registered with the RePEc Author Service (and has current affiliation or publication information).

Note that seminar organizers (and speakers) can disseminate their virtual events through the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar, which is available as web pages or through weekly email alerts with MyIDEAS. In 2020, over 750 seminars were announced that way.

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RePEc in November 2020

December 6, 2020

The news of the month is the launch of a completely revamped CollEc site and application, thanks to the efforts of Christian Düben. We counted 619,269 file downloads and 3,311,625 abstract views in November 2020. We welcomed a few new archives: Duisburg-Essen University, Conselho das Finanças Públicas, Indian Statistical Institute, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, National Bank of Kazakhstan, Bengaluru Dr. B.R.Ambedkar School of Economics. Finally, the milestones we reached:
80,000,000 cumulative downloads through IDEAS
50,000,000 cumulative articles downloads through reporting services
25,000,000 cumulative downloads through EconPapers
12,000 students listed on RePEc Genealogy.

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