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.