Please feel free to redistribute this announcement. The abstract service will archive and distribute working paper abstracts, while the announcement service will distribute meeting information and other notices of professional interest. It also means that abstracts will be mailed out to our current distribution lists serving over 4,700 subscribers. Abstracts can be submitted via e-mail with the 'abstract' command and announcements with the 'announcement' command while as before, papers can be submitted with the 'put' or 'fput' command.
Web forms are also available.
Announcements and abstracts will be delivered to subscribers who currently receive EconWPA announcements of submissions. As with working papers, material from abstracts or announcements can be searched on-line. Abstracts and announcements will also be sent to NetEc for inclusion in its databases, just as we are currently doing for papers. EconWPA has had this ability since February of 1995 but have not advertized it. The costs to us of maintaining two or three separate services and the costs to the user in terms of confusing multiple lists appear to outweigh the advantages.