Due to legally required security checks of all electronic installations at the ZBW, most of it’s services – including EconStor – will be discontinued from October 18, 2024 4:00 p.m. to October 22, 2024 6:00 a.m. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Due to necessary maintenance work Econstor services can be shortly interrupted on Friday 27th of October 2023 and the following weekend. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Dear EconStor users,
there will be no EconStor support services from the 23rd of December until the 2nd of January 2023.
We wish you all happy holidays and a good start for 2023 🙂
Your EconStor team
This year the EconStor team conducted an international survey among the EconStor users in the research community. The results are available via ZBW-Mediatalk.
Although a lot of our work is now done from home, the EconStor team at ZBW remains active even in times of the Corona Pandemic.
Since the beginning of last week our organization ZBW has switched to digital mode, i.e. most employees now work from home. But the provision of up to date services remains of critical importance, especially when it comes to freely available scholarly publications. Therefore the Econstor team continues to serve its publishing institutions and its authors with the same commitment as before. We even see a higher usage of our publications in the recent weeks.
Moreover Open Access to scholarly papers is more important than ever in times, where a lot of researchers are working from home and request access to scholarly literature from there but also distribute their new research findings from home. EconStor serves the needs of Economists from around the world by distributing almost 200.000 freely available publications to the Economics community and the public worldwide. The need for Open Access was never so evident as it is now!
EconStor is especially well established in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where the majority of economic research institutions use the service. But more than 70 per cent of accesses to the service originate from outside these countries, thus proving the global reach of EconStor. Among its customers are renowned institutions such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Yale University, the German Economic Association (VfS) or the Economics research instutes within the Leibniz Association.
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Olaf Siegert, product manager of EconStor, explains: “We notice that more and more institutions contact us in order to disseminate their publications in Open Access through EconStor. The fact that we are a publicly-funded institution without commercial interests works in our favour, as it means we meet the ideal of a digital information infrastructure in the context of Open Science.”
This is confirmed by Professor Jutta Allmendinger, president of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB): “For more than 10 years now, our close cooperation with the ZBW has been characterised by Open Access. With EconStor, the ZBW ensures that our (and others’) research findings are findable and freely accessible, and provides an invaluable service for science and society.”
What differentiates predatory journals from serious journals? How can researchers protect themselves against publishing in a predatory journal?
The ZBW has compiled a handout giving you a brief survey and supplying tools to protect against predatory publishers:
https://www.zbw.eu/fileadmin/pdf/forschung/2018-handreichung-predatory-publishing.pdf
Today EconStor is undergoing a major relaunch. Therefore the site will be down for a few hours before coming back improved and more user-friendly.In the meantime you are redirected to our blog site. So If you want to download a paper, please visit us again later today.
In June we have added the following research paper series and e-journals to EconStor:
1988 new items have been uploaded. The total number of full-text documents climbed to 90300 by 30/06/2015. We have counted 165936 downloads in June.
The Top 5 most downloaded papers:
1.) Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; Zylberberg, Yanos: „Star Wars: The empirics strike back“ (468)
2.) Kreutzer, Ralf T.; Hinz, Jule: „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Social Media Marketing“ (433)
3.) Dieckmann, Anja; Fischbacher, Urs; Grimm, Veronika; Unfried, Matthias; Utikal, Verena; Valmasoni, Lorenzo: „Trust and beliefs among Europeans: Cross-country evidence on perceptions and behavior“ (300)
4.) Catullo, Ermanno; Gallegati, Mauro; Palestrini, Antonio: „Systemic risk and macro-prudential policies: A credit network-based approach“ (296)
5.) Yacuzzi, Enrique: „El estudio de caso como metodologĂa de investigaciĂłn: TeorĂa, mecanismos causales, validaciĂłn“ (279)
In May we have added the following research paper series to EconStor:
451 new items have been uploaded. The total number of full-text documents climbed to 88312 by 31/05/2015. We have counted 163478 downloads in May.
The Top 5 most downloaded papers:
1.) Crotty, James: „Structural causes of the global financial crisis: A critical assessment of the “New Financial Architecture”“ (394)
2.) Neumark, David: „Detecting discrimination in Audit and correspondence studies“ (330)
3.) Kreutzer, Ralf T.; Hinz, Jule: „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Social Media Marketing“ (328)
4.) Grob, Heinz Lothar (ed.); Vossen, Gottfried (ed.): „Entwicklungen im Web 2.0 aus technischer, ökonomischer und sozialer Sicht“ (281)
5.) Yacuzzi, Enrique: „El estudio de caso como metodologĂa de investigaciĂłn: TeorĂa, mecanismos causales, validaciĂłn“ (279)
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