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EconStor is a disciplinary repository for Economics and Business Studies which offers research literature in Open Access and makes it findable in various portals and search engines. The service is operated by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
The majority of the publications originates from German institutions in economic research and is provided in accordance with usage agreements. Individual researchers can also submit their scholarly papers to EconStor.
Publications include mostly working papers, discussion papers and conference proceedings, but also articles in journals and theses.
The most important professional association for economists in Germany, the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), has been using EconStor since 2010 to publish conference papers submitted for its Annual Meeting online.
One of the most important online dissemination channels for EconStor documents is the database RePEc , where EconStor is also one of the largest content providers.
EconStor counts among the largest repositories in its discipline and in Germany with more than 100,000 full-texts. The Ranking Web of Repositories currently ranks EconStor among the Top Ten repositories in Europe.