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Working papers or grey literature have long played a major role in scholarly communication between economists.  Many studies that will eventually be published in peer reviewed journals first appear as working papers.  The sources on this page provide access to working papers online and to open access journals.  EconLit a subscription indexing and abstracting database created by the American Economic Association is the primary source for searching economics research. 

• Economics Research Network  The economics neighborhood of the Social Science Research Network.  A forum for scholarly communication about  research and conferences.  Platform for browsing and searching working papers and reports from universities, governments, public policy organizaitons and practitioners.  Limited discovery platform for research published in subscription economics journals.

• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) An international database of institutional archives of working papers, journal articles, chapters, books and software.  A pioneer in open access scholarly communication!

• Directory of Open Access Journals:  Economics Economics journals freely accessable on the web

• Open J Gate  General directory of open access journals with many economics related titles.  Supports searching for articles across journals or browsing by journal subject and editorial policy.

• AgEcon Database For full text scholarly working papers, journal articles and conference papers on agricultural and applied economics

Previouly mantained by Linda Hauck, Villanova University, Dennis Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Elisabeth Leonard, University of California, San Diego; Kevin Harwell, Penn State University; and, Jennifer Boettcher, Georgetown University.