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ABSTRACT:
To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it discusses the implications of self-archiving for the pricing of subscription-based academic journals.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted C. Bergstrom and Rosemarie Lavaty, "How often do economists self-archive?" (February 8, 2007). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 2007a.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/2007a