Information for Authors
Elsevier - in cooperation with ScienceDirect - has designed several authors’ services contributing to the needs of authors having their published papers easily accessible.

Articles in Press:
In order to shorten publication times and increase chances to be cited, Elsevier will post the corrected proofs of all accepted articles prior to printing of the paper issue. These articles will be listed on the ScienceDirect home page of the journal under "Articles in Press". Each article will be assigned a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

Online Submissions:
Starting in January 2003, Elsevier provides the possibility for authors to submit manuscripts electronically to the EER. This will facilitate a faster turn-around time of manuscripts. Please go to https://eer.editorialmanager.com and follow the guidelines.

Visibility and Retrieval of Published Papers:
While each journal has a core-readers circle, many articles are of interest to a wider audience. Elsevier has set up several alerting services bringing the contents of each issue of the EER to a larger audience. These HTML-messages - distributed to about 26.000 individual economists provide a direct link to the abstract and full text of each article.
Further, the search function within www.elsevier.com/economics being the major portal of the economics program of Elsevier / North-Holland / Academic / Pergamon, serves over 40,000 monthly visitors to find the right papers(s).

Distribution of Your Paper:
The electronic version of the EER within ScienceDirect - as outlined above - is now the most widely distributed economics research journal in Europe. Equally, the EER is available in all major research institutions in the USA/Canada and Austral/Asia. In fact: at more than 2,100 universities, all faculty and students do have desktop access. This extensive distribution has been achieved as a result of many consortia licenses such as OhioLink (US), NERL (US), California Digital Library System (US). NESLI (UK). Furthermore there are State / nationwide licenses in several countries such as in Hungary, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan. Summarizing: it will be hard to find a major university without access to ScienceDirect.

Cited by Function:
When reading an article in ScienceDirect, you can click on the “Cited by” function – which will then display a list of all other articles in ScienceDirect that cite the paper you are reading.
This is also an interesting tool for authors to grasp citation behavior to their article. While evaluating this, one should realize that ScienceDirect contains only approx. 25% of all journal articles in economics.

SCIRUS - Public Archive:
Elsevier has set up a dedicated search engine concentrating exclusively on scientific content searching both web and journal sources. The advanced search option of SCIRUS enables you to pre-select according to information types and subjects. SCIRUS will also index any articles you have ever published in any of the Elsevier journals. The search result will provide you with the abstract and other bibliographic details of the article with a direct link to the full text. You are invited to submit the URL of your own home page. Go to www.scirus.com