A Profile of Italian Working Papers in RePEc.

This paper describes the results of an analysis of Italian Working papers (WP) available both in RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) and in Institutional Repositories (IR) and Websites. Given that RePEc is a disciplinary repository based on the active involvement of economic institutions, rather than authors, our analysis intends to explore the institutions' propensity for making their collections available both in disciplinary and Institutional repositories. Therefore, the paper provides a profile of the Italian Economics institutions participating in RePEc as well as an in-depth analysis of the their availability WPs and WP series. Moreover, IRs and Websites of the Italian institutions participating in RePEc were analysed to compare the scientific contents available in these important sources of free access Information (RePEc, IRs and Websites). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]