Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/participate.htmlParticipating in RePEc
There is some documentation aboutRePEc available for starters.They explain the common description of information about the workingpapers and articles, which will be used by the variousservices (like IDEAS) to bedisplayed on the web or through email.To be listed in IDEAS, there are several options:
- If you want to put your papers online but do not have a place to put them, put them at the Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA). That way, your papers will be listed also inNEP,IDEAS andEconPapers.
- You can also build your own RePEc archive. This has the advantagethat you have full control on your bibliographic dataand it is easy to amend it for revisions or withdrawals, and you do not have to rely on others. Then, your data willbe incorporated into RePEc,mirrored by IDEAS and EconPapers and, for papers that areonline, by NEP. See below, or jump to thestep by step instructions. Note that RePEcarchives are not intended to be personal archives, but rather institutionalones.
It should be noted that RePEc does not limit itself to working papers.Articles, software components and books are also welcome, but they can only be indexed by the respective publishers, much like for working papers.
How do you set up your own RePEc archive?
To have a RePEc archive, you need access to an http server or an anonymous ftp server. There are simplestep by step instructions on how to set the archive up, from filenames to file content. Additional documentation is available: theGuildfordProtocol (GuilP) describes the philosophy of the RePEcundertaking, and probably more useful for an archive maintainer, a description of theResearchDocuments Information Format (ReDIF) that shows thecomplete syntax to be used in your bibliographic info.If you find this easier, a set oftemplates tocut and paste then fill with the relevant information is available.
Note that you may not want to build your archive from scratch. Some of your working papers may already have been cataloguedby volunteer. To see this, take a look at thelist of working paperseries at IDEAS. If your institution is listed, seetips and tricks for RePEc archive maintainers on how to transfer them.
Here is a list of otherRePEc services,and the list of existingRePEc archives.
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