Computer Network Resources for Economists

Goffe, William L.

doi:10.1257/jep.8.3.97

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“…At present BibEe holds 50,000 bibliographic records of working-papers series. When created, the service included bibliographic records on some 35,000 economies working-papers (Goffe, 1994).…”

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Trends in publishing academic grey literature: examples from economics

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2000

International Journal on Grey Literature

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This paper deals with preprints in economics. Exchanging preprints or``working-paper series" as they are commonly known among economists had, been the traditional way for informal communication of recent research findings. Electronic dissemination of recent scholarly works has grown with the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) facilities. Indeed, it is well documented now that computer and electronic dissemination of knowledge have changed the way of life within the information world. The incursion of the Internet as a gateway to the global information environment plays a significant role as a support in daily research activities.Within universities, the Internet has become one of the major information vehicles particularly among the scientific community. It is quite easy to search information from the Internet for processing and manipulation. Indeed``the element of scholarly research most affected by the Internet is that of communication at all stages of the project, from study design and data gathering to project administration and dissemination of outcomes'' (WarrenWenk and Monty, 1996).For economists, as well as for many other academics,``Scholarly communication in the sciences holds, at its cornerstone, the tenets of publishing quickly the results of scientific inquiry or findings, and distributing the results of research expeditiously to the academic and industrial communities'' as mentioned by Gelfand (1998). This situation has increased interests to find out quick channels to communicate research findings among colleagues and common academic public.The delay associated with publishing in commercial journals, promotes the importance of working-papers series among economists. These documents were an assigned candidate for electronic publishing, distribution, and sharing via E-mail services and Web sites.

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Trends in publishing academic grey literature: examples from economics

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“…These provide a model for similar access to background material for articles published in professional journals. See for example Goffe (1993Goffe ( , 1994, who also suggests that replication would be enhanced by data distribution via the Internet.…”

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Replication and Scientific Standards in Economics a Decade Later: The Impact of the JMCB Project

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1994

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Scientific inquiry embodies skepticism. Researchers are trained to scrutinize every result, doubting not only the truth but also the tests of every hypothesis. Research papers in professional journals typically present only summaries of results, however, providing neither the programs nor data that a reader requires to fully understand-and question-the authors' tests. The Journal ofMoney, Credit, and Banking project a decade ago was the first attempt by the editor of a major journal to furnish readers with the data and programs used by the journal's authors. The project revealed the futility of proposing that readers obtain data and programs directly from authors, since data often were lost during the long interval between completion of the research and appearance of the published article. The project also established that professional journals were a low cost mechanism for collecting data from authors and distributing it to readers. A decade later, although the JMCB no longer requests data from authors, 2 journals have recently begun collecting such data and distributing it via the Internet.

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“…Specifically, the expected benefits of social media use, managing privacy concerns, and incorporating these tools in the classroom are explored. Our approach is to provide a guide on new technology available to instructors, similar to Goffe (1994), who provided a guide for economists on resources available on the Internet, and Manning (1996), who provided a guide on how to incorporate e-mail in economics courses.…”

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