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Issue 16, Fall 1998

William A. McEachern, Editor

On-Line Journals

The number of economic journals available on-line is growing. There are three levels of availability: 1) full access to current and recent issues, 2) access to back issues only, and 3) access to tables of contents and abstracts. At the most useful level are journals that allow you to read and/or download articles, typically using an Adobe Acrobat PDF reader. Springer makes available on-line current and recent issues of a dozen economic journals: Annals of Regional Science, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Economic Theory, Empirical Economics, Finance and Stochastics, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Review of Economic Design, and Social Choice and Welfare. All are available at http://www.springer.de/ol/econol/index.htm. The home page says these journals are freely accessible by people at institutions with a fully paid subscription to the print journal. I was able to print out any article, no questions asked (perhaps the journal site recognized that my University of Connecticut domain indicated I was from an institution whose library subscribes).

Another publisher, Elsevier, also make current and recent issues available on line for a dozen economics journals: Economics Letters, European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. There appear to be no restrictions to accessing these journals, though the current free access may be just a temporary experiment. The Elsevier home page for economics journals is http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/econbase. (Incidentally, including all disciplines, Elsevier now publishes about 1,200 journals.)

Recent and current issues of two other journals are freely available, at least for now: Journal of Economic Education at http://www.indiana.edu:80/~econed and Macroeconomic Dynamics at http://www.journals.cup.org/cup/html/login_new.htm.

JSTOR, short for "journal storage," is a nonprofit project aimed at making back issues of key journals available on-line. The program is funded by libraries with the goal of freeing up huge chunks of shelf space. So as not to cut into each journal's paid subscription base, the project has put up a three-to-five-year "moving wall" between a journal's date of publication and its availability on-line. For example the first 82 volumes of the American Economic Review are now on-line, which takes it through 1992. Other back issues are available for: Econometrica, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. The address for JSTOR is http://www.jstor.org/journals. Access is supposed to be limited to those at institutions that subscribed to the service. I had no trouble downloading articles (again, it could be that the sites' server detected that my domain was from a subscribing institution). The good news about this service for us and for the libraries is that only about five years of back issues need be kept in hard copy. Out with the old, in with the new.

The next level down in usefulness are those sites that provide a table of contents and abstracts of articles, both or which are searchable by author, title, or key words. Academic Press offers this service for: Explorations in Economic History, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Journal of Urban Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics. The Web address is http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/econ.htm. Elsevier also provides searchable tables of contents and abstracts for about thirty journals whose full contents are not available. Some publishers offer a homepage merely providing a list of editors and details about subscribing or submitting manuscripts.

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