The Economics of Open Bibliographic Data Provision

Paper from the University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the provision of bibliographic data as an extension
of the open source concept. Our particular concern is the sustainability of such
endeavors. We describe the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project, probably
the largest “open source” bibliographic database. It demonstrates that opensource
bibliographic data collection is sustainable. Click here for full text of paper.