Annual Report
ECP-2006-DILI-510001
NEEO
Annual Report
01 September 2007 – 31 August 2008
http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo
Deliverable
number/name
D1.5 Annual Report
Dissemination level
Public
Delivery date
31 August 2008
Status
Final
Author(s)
Hans Geleijnse, Vivi Hermans-Tjoa,
Vanessa Proudman, C. Torres-Vitolas
eContentplus
This project is funded under the eContentplus programme1,
a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and
exploitable.
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OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 1.
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1 Table of contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................ 2
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES .......................................................................................................................... 3
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CONSORTIUM ........................................................................................................................................... 4
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PROJECT RESULTS/ACHIEVEMENTS................................................................................................ 7
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TARGET USERS & THEIR NEEDS ...................................................................................................... 10
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UNDERLYING CONTENT ..................................................................................................................... 10
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SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 15
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IMPACT & SUSTAINABILITY.............................................................................................................. 27
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2 Project Objectives
2.1
The problem addressed by the project and its objectives
The NEEO project (Network of European Economists Online) creates a networked service providing
open access to recent economics publications from twenty top European economics research institutes
and the full text publications of 500 top researchers. The projects includes journal articles, working
papers, books and book chapters, conference papers and research data.
The service based on Institutional Repositories of the participating universities will improve the
visibility, usability and accessibility of this information for users in Europe and in the world at large.
NEEO takes an international, subject-oriented approach which will set standards, guaranteeing the
quality of the information and providing the branding which can act as a model for others to follow.2
2.2
Contribution to the programme objectives
The project is in line with the objectives of the goals of the European Commission programme
eContentplus.3 The project enhances the conditions for accessing, using, reusing and exploiting
economics content by involving main players and their collections in this area and by implementing
mechanisms to aggregate, describe and index the electronic research output.
NEEO will improve the discovery of the information resources of the partners and their researchers and
will enable, as much as possible, open access in various languages and for various types of users.
The global visibility of the output of economic researchers in Europe will be enhanced by creating a
critical mass of resources in the institutional repositories of the partner institutions.
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An Institutional Repository is a database which stores, preserves and disseminates the intellectual research output of an institution
in digital form.
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eContentPlus fudning programme, DG Information Society European Commission:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm
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3 Consortium
Netherlands
Tilburg University (TU)
Project Role
 Co-ordinator
 WP1,3 & 4 leader
 Technical expert
 Content provider
Erasmus University Rotterdam, University
Library (EUR)
 Technical expert
 Content provider
Maastricht University (UM)
 Content provider
United Kingdom
London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), UK
 WP2 and WP8 leader
 Content provider
University College of London (UCL)
 WP7 leader
 IPR expertise
 Content provider
University of Oxford (OXF)
 Translation
verification
 Content provider
The University of Warwick (Warwick)
 Content provider
Belgium
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
 WP6 leader
 Translation
 Content provider
 WP 5 leader
 Technical expert
 Content provider
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
France
Sciences Po
 Content provider
Toulouse 1 University of Social Sciences (UT1)
 Content provider
Université Paris-Dauphine (Dauphine)
 Content provider
 Translation
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Germany
German National Library of Economics (ZBW
Kiel)
 Translation
 Content provider
Spain
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UCAR), Spain
 Translation
 Content provider
Ireland
National University of Ireland, Dublin, University
College Dublin Library (UCD)
 Content provider
Czech Republic
Charles University, Center of Economic Research
and Graduate Education (UK-CERGE),
 Content provider
The NEEO project is governed by a Project Management Board (PMB). It is the decision-making body of the
project. It keeps the Nereus Steering Committee (Nereus SC) informed but does not report to it.4 All partners
have signed a NEEO Consortium Agreement. Diagramme 1 shows the NEEO management structure
(overleaf).
The day-to-day management is carried out by a Project Manager (PM) with the Core Management Group
(CMG) consisting of the 8 Work package leaders. Work is distributed across work packages: WP1: Project
management, WP2: User requirements, WP3: Content – traditional publications, WP4: Content – datasets,
WP5: Interoperability infrastructure and gateway, WP6: Multilingual issues, WP7: Awareness and
dissemination and WP8: Assessment and evaluation.
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Nereus is the membership consortium of leading libraries in the area of economics which is behind NEEO. It is necessary to be a
member of Nereus before becoming a NEEO partner. For more information, see http://www.nereus4economics.info
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Diagramme 1
NEEO Management Structure
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4 Project Results/Achievements
4.1 A NEEO user requirement survey
The project’s user requirements survey was disseminated to approximately 5,500 people and was carried out
and analyzed in late 2007 and early 2008. The baseline questionnaire ran in four languages (EN, FR, DE, ES).
As a result, a NEEO User Report exists which largely confirms the need for the NEEO project as a means to
make research results more widely accessible open access. Content acquisition, dissemination and service
specifications for NEEO were extracted from this report. These recommendations have been either 1)
identified as already part of the existing NEEO work plan, 2) still to be considered as part of the NEEO
project work plan or 3) to be added to the NEEO Business and Sustainability Plan. The project has already
taken some of these recommendations on board, for example, with some NEEO partners already actively
requesting more reports, conference proceedings and chapters and trying to make them open access.
4.2 Aggregating decentralised content from 12 partners
Partners have been ardently aggregating content from their researchers in the first 12 months of the project.
Material is stored in 16 local institutional repositories which is ultimately made available to online search
services, including the NEEO portal (for more information on this, see below). Various publication types are
gathered to reflect the breadth of economics research output: working papers, discussion papers, journal
articles (post-print or accepted version after peer-review), reports, chapters, books, conference proceedings,
theses and other research output. Datasets will be added in year 2 of the project.
Six core partners have aggregated the majority of their content, with six other partners who have started
ahead of time.
The totals as of 4 August 2008 were:
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892 researchers and authors are collaborating in NEEO. This far exceeds the original target of 500.
Recently, two esteemed French universities of Université Toulouse I Sciences Sociales and
L’Université Paris-Dauphine delivered over 75 new names of authors who will contribute open access
full text to the NEEO Project and its Economists Online service.5
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33,116 bibliographic references, which is more than twice the amount planned for the first year.
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11,232 full text records available open access.6 This exceeds the year’s total target by 40%.
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Current content amounts to 2,569 full text records, which exceeds the annual target by 3%.7 NEEO
aims to provide 75% of its current content output. It has been calculated by looking at the annual
academic output of the partners’ economists in 2007.
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Almost 4,000 journal articles, over 6,300 working and discussion papers, and 167 chapters, over 200
masters theses and 200 reports related to economics are now open access via partner repositories.
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Economists Online is the name of the NEEO portal, and also the name of the pilot project funded by SURF.
Full text meaning documents containing more than the abstract, i.e. for immediate access to the complete text.
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Current content includes material from 2007 and 2008.
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4.3
NEEO partner institutions well informed of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues
related to open access deposit
Partners are firstly better informed about the IPR challenges surrounding repositories after attending a NEEO
workshop which addressed legal aspects which are important when managing a repository as well as
experiences on how to educate researchers about current changes. NEEO has also developed an IPR tool-kit,
which is a document which is largely there to support content mediators in advising on basic legal issues
surrounding IPR when retrieving material from authors. This document includes a guide to copyright and
repositories for authors and information specialists, an extensive FAQ document, useful links to model
licenses and model letters to request the deposit of material in IRs from publishers. The author shared results
of this IPR work at the TICER Summer School: Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008 at the end of August 2008.8
4.4
Six Institutional Repositories interoperable so far
for improved access via a subject-specific search service and portal for economics
The Service Oriented Architecture of the NEEO Gateway has been developed to enable the access to the
distributed content of institutional archives supported by over five different platforms via one subject-based
online portal. This service, named Economists Online, profiles strong European research results in the area of
economics. Six partners have abided by the NEEO Technical Guidelines, following the NEEO application
profile including the MODS and MPEG21-DIDL metadata standards, to bring their content into one
disciplinary service whole.91011 They have shared lessons learnt and will prepare other partners for the
integration of more data in the next months of the project. Efforts have been made to synergise with other
leading projects and initiatives in the European digital library scene (such as Driver and SURFshare) when
developing the NEEO application profile.1213 NEEO has also talked to the European Digital Library Project
(EDL) on multilingual search systems. At a later stage other links with the EDL will be established.
Universities and other content providers use different platforms for their repositories.14 Crosswalks have been
developed for the DSpace, EPrints, and ARNO platforms.15 A system to electronically register partners IRs
and authors has been developed to allow the decentralised input of author information by NEEO partners. The
current first version of the portal already incorporates a metadata search service and presents individual
electronic publication lists of over 500 authors (more than twice as many as foreseen by this stage). Many
additional features and design enhancements are planned for September 2009, including a full-text search
system, automatic metadata enrichment and the seamless forwarding of records to RePEc services and
Google and Google Scholar. 1617 Access to the first version of the Economists Online portal will be made in
2008 via the NEEO website: http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo
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TICER Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008 Summer School: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/08carte/index.html
MODS: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
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MPEG21-DIDL : http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=41112 and
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c041112_ISO_IEC_21000-2_2005(E).zip
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NEEO Technical Guidelines: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/WP5 Technical guidelines.pdf
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Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER): http://www.driver-repository.eu/
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SurfSHARE programme: http://www.surffoundation.nl/smartsite.dws?ch=ENG&id=5463
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European Digital Library Project (EDL): http://www.edlproject.eu/
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DSpace: http://www.dspace.org/
EPrints: http://www.eprints.org/
ARNO: http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno
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RePEc: Research papers in Economics: http://repec.org/
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Google: http://www.google.com and Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
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4.5 Providing more Europeans access to economics content
NEEO has made some efforts to further increase the access to information in 4 of the European languages by
translating the online questionnaire and the IPR toolkit from the English into Spanish, French and German.
These translated versions have helped NEEO partners communicate more effectively on the project with their
authors. . The key classification system for economics, JEL (Journal of Economic Literature Classification
System) and its some 1,000 terms, has also been translated into three further languages than English. The
project is exploring whether and how to make this data further accessible other than via its search technology.
In addition, NEEO has taken up contact with various experts in the Multi Lingual Information Access
(MLIA) field in view of the planned automated translation of queries and development of the multi-lingual
search system later on in the project. A master thesis is also currently being carried out for NEEO running
NEEO data through several multilingual translation tools such as Reverso (Promt), Systran and Google
Translate. This will form part of the basis for deciding on which multilingual software to select for the
portal’s needs. This activity is running well ahead of schedule.
In addition, the Nereus consortium has been in discussion with the Dutch Royal Library (KB) on behalf of
NEEO to discuss the long term preservation of NEEO content. Nereus and the KB has agreed to the price
conditions for the period of 3 years and is currently setting up a work plan.
4.6
Raising awareness of NEEO amongst the publishing, library and information
management communities
A NEEO Communication Plan was developed to identify NEEO’s target groups, communication aims and
products. Since then, a full set of publicity materials (flyer, leaflet, poster, and website) has been created,
giving the Project a clear visual identity and online presence and have supported NEEO partners in their
project advocacy activities. Presentations about the project or relating to it have already been made at eight
external events in the Hague, Berlin, Frankfurt, Goettingen, Valencia, Bucharest, Frankfurt, Madrid - all on
invitation. This includes a panel presence at the 2008 Academic publishing in Europe. Quality in Publishing
Conference, a presentation at the First DRIVER summit, sharing experiences of a successful project at the
eContentPlus Infoday in the Netherlands in 2008, and presenting a paper on Winning Hearts and Minds at a
workshop on Understanding Organisational Cultures: Impact on Repository Growth and Development in
Sept 2008. In addition, an article has already been published about the project, co-written by the Project
Director and WP7 leader: NEEO and Economists Online, Sconul Focus, 42 Winter 2007, 33.
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/42/11.pdf
A public website also exists at http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo, which provides basic information on
the project, its partners and results.
4.7 Assessing the improvement of access to open access content
NEEO is currently aggregating download statistics on its material from partners who have the facilities to do
so. NEEO is waiting for international recommendations on usage data to be published in 2008 before it asks
all partners to adopt certain standards to enable the smooth exchange of information on Institutional
Repository usage data, e.g. on what data should be counted by what.
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5 Target Users & their Needs
The NEEO project conducted a user study to determine the needs of economics researchers accessing textual
documents and statistical datasets, disseminating their academic outputs and their interest in specific services
to be offered by the service. The consultation took place between September 2007 and January 2008 and was
implemented via an online survey and focus groups that targeted European economists working in the
countries where NEEO partners operate. Most of the participants were academic researchers so the results can
be regarded as indicative of the views of European scholars in general. The researcher’s views and
suggestions reported in the User Requirement Report were taken on board by the project and served to outline
the specifications of the service in terms of content, technical architecture and featured services.
The study found that there is demand for an open-access online repository such as Economists Online (EO).
Most economics researchers consulted indicated that they make extensive use of electronic resources
including online search engines such as Google (Scholar), known-authors’ personal websites and online
repositories like Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Furthermore, potential users also showed an important commitment to making their studies freely accessible
as approximately three in five scholars consulted revealed that the majority of their research outputs are
available through open-access resources. Economists also aspire to improve the visibility of their research via
similar online repositories. The enhanced exposition of academic production via EO in search engines such as
Google (Scholar) and RePEc is expected to satisfy the dissemination demands of European researchers.
The service aims to provide free access to the research outputs produced by NEEO partner institutions
including journal articles, working papers, books (chapters), conference proceedings, datasets and theses.
This objective matches the current needs of European researchers who, although stated they had good access
to journal articles, expressed different levels of difficulty in obtaining other types of documents. The study
found that access to book (chapters), conference proceedings and datasets was thought to be much more
difficult.
The provision of free access to datasets as part of EO generated a very enthusiastic response from participants
who commented it would situate the service in a favourable light amongst the specialised search tools in the
field. Focus group participants in 4 countries expressed a keen interest in accessing datasets created by
researchers working on theoretical and econometric models as well as to access micro and macro commercial
data. Although EO will not be in the position to offer the latter, it will provide downloadable datasets of
academic relevance produced by NEEO partners while aiming, in the future, at adding links to datasets from
other institutional collections and web resources.
The study also revealed a widespread concern on copyright issues among economics researchers who feared
they may infringe copyright laws when providing content. Overcoming this problem is critical for the success
of the service. It is expected that the development of a copyright toolkit by the project containing basic legal
frequently asked questions and model contracts and adapted for specific national jurisdictions will help the
project to surmount this obstacle.
Consulted researchers also highlighted different preferences in relation to prospective EO features. They
indicated the usefulness of the following search options in this order: author, title(s), keywords and subject,
that would provide results preferably sorted according to relevance and usage rankings (number of downloads
or abstract views). In addition, participants wanted their search results to be exportable into reference
management software packages and to be able to access usage information on their publications.
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The project will seek regular continuous feedback from users in order to continuously improve the service
according to the demands from end-users. Consequently, two other user studies will be conducted in the
future: a mid-project survey for feedback on content quality, services and required service refinements in
month 18 and a final user satisfaction consultation in month 30.
6 Underlying Content
Economics is a science which relies on descriptive as well as empirical research and teaching methods. For
this, journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters, theses, conference papers, reports, book reviews,
statistical and socio-economic data are essential publications which a library has to provide, in order to
support demanding top-ranked research institutions. The Nereus partners are well known for the size and
comprehensiveness of their collections. However, not all researchers, teachers, students, authors, and readers
around the world have equal access to all resources, which is why NEEO is striving to provide as much of the
output of its leading research open access.
6.1 Direct user/author-base
In total, all NEEO partners directly serve ca. 30,000 researchers and teachers and over 250,000 students, in all
of which 2,500 researchers and teachers and ca. 33,000 students specialise in economics with combined
collections of 20 million books, working papers and several thousand journal subscriptions of which threequarters are e-journals and several hundred databases. By the end of the first project year, 834 researchers and
authors were collaborating in NEEO by providing CVs or publication lists and publications to project
partners. This is over 30 per cent of the total number of researchers and teachers. These leading European
scholars are working together with NEEO to make as much of their scientific output digitally accessible in
order to share it with the academic community open access where possible. See Appendix I for a list of
participating scholars, for the latest updated version of the list, please go to:
http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo_authors.html .
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6.2 Quality
Current NEEO institutions feature in various rankings which indicate their strength and quality in providing
cutting-edge research. Table 1 shows ten NEEO institutions who are positioned well as according to three
ranking studies. This confirms that the NEEO portal and repository content is of a high standard, and in some
cases excellent. NEEO will strive to similarly select as according to a significant ranking status to maintain a
high level of open access quality content.
Table 1:
Ranking overview of NEEO institutions
Survey from the EEA
Survey conducted by staff at
(European Economics
the Universite Catholique de
Association) conducted at
Louvain, Belgium May 2003
University of Leicester 1994(European rankings)
1998 (European rankings)
PLACEMENT NUMBER
PLACEMENT NUMBER
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
University of Oxford (UK)
University College London (UCL) (UK)
Tilburg University (NL)
Universite Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales (FR)
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
University of Warwick (UK)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES)
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
Maastricht University (NL)
2
6
4
1
7
14
18
10
25
74
1
3
11
2
9
5
8
32
25
15
RePEc site listings as of
December 2007 (world
rankings) PLACEMENT
NUMBER
3
8
21
73
18
63
23
46
x
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6.3 Current content-stock
The total volume of materials accessible through this project, portal and WWW is expected to be in the order
of 50,000 items building on a baseline of 7,007 references and 3,091 full text files from the Economists
Online pilot with the plan to link directly to 15,000 full text publication documents including some 160
datasets. The 2007 NEEO partner annual academic output amounted to over 3,750 documents. As at month
12, the following results can be reported:
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33,116 bibliographic references are available in addition to the Economists Online Pilot Project data
of just over 7,000. 11,232 full text records are available open access in addition to the 3,000 of the
Pilot Project.
Publication types: working papers, discussion papers, journal articles (post-prints), reports, chapters,
books, conference proceedings, theses and other material
Almost 4,000 journal articles, over 6,300 working and discussion papers, and 167 chapters, over 200
masters theses and 200 reports related to economics are now open access via partner repositories.
3 datasets currently exist with work on data to start in month 15.
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6. 4
Collection development policy
6.4.1 Open access full text
The project is focused on making research results freely available to all via open access thereby increasing
access and visibility to leading research results. We discourage the aggregation of embargoed material or
material which is only made open access after a specified time although this cannot be completely ruled out
as yet due to restrictions set by some publishers.
6.4.2. Versions
NEEO project partners are aggregating several versions of one and the same work in some cases. For
example, a working paper may develop into a condensed journal article; both of which are separate
publications. Partners are making efforts to mark these appropriately to make it easy for users to identify the
version to be read.
6.4.3. Current content and historical content
NEEO aims to make 75% of its current content open access online where possible. At the end of year one,
current content amounted to 2,569 full text records, which is close to achieving this aim. Current content
output has been calculated by looking at the annual academic output of the partners’ economists in 2007
which amounted to over 3,750.
Otherwise, NEEO is also trying to make as much of the complete academic output of its researchers’ works
digitally freely available. This means making as much of a researcher’s output and historical material
available online open access where copyright allows. This also means making documents which were
formerly only available at specific physical locations such as the researcher’s office or library, now available
to the world at large online irrespective of location. In one case, the entire contents of the following 2 journals
Cahiers économiques de Bruxelles (ISSN : 0008-0195) succeeded by the Brussels economic review (ISSN :
1379-9932) have been made digitally available for the first time by Université Libre de Bruxelles, providing
about 900 new full texts online, also to be found via NEEO.
6.4.4.Publication type
The following types of data were selected by economists and information specialists at the beginning of the
project as types of data to be made available via partner repositories via NEEO.
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Journal articles
Economists are evaluated on their academic output, especially on the publication of articles in journals of
high reputation. The project will seek to acquire post-prints, i.e. final author versions after peer-review, or
final publisher PDFs - where publishers allow.
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Working papers (preferably from WP series)
A working paper is usually the first formalised publication of a research idea or result; it is usually more of an
extended version of what will be developed into a journal article at a later stage. It is a preliminary paper, a
preprint version, that researchers prepare often to share ideas about a topic or to ask for feedback before
submitting the paper to a peer reviewed journal. There is a long tradition of working papers, discussion papers
and research papers in the economics community where most NEEO partners have electronic archives which
aggregate them.
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Conference proceedings
Conference proceedings can share first research results with the economics community or else leading names
can provide meta analysis of broader economics topics in keynote speeches, or other papers. The Nereus user
survey in 2005 and the NEEO one of 2008 indicated that access to conference proceedings was not straightforward for the researcher and welcomed. NEEO will therefore seek to make more available online and open
access via the project’s portal.
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Books
Economists publish in books to a lesser extent compared to other mediums. We seek to make book references
and the books themselves digitally available, or parts thereof where publishers allow and where viable, for
easier access via the NEEO portal.

Book chapters
As part of the Nereus user survey in 2005 and the NEEO one in 2008, researchers indicated that they had
difficulties in accessing chapters. NEEO therefore seeks to make book references and book chapters
digitally available, or parts thereof where publishers allow and where viable, for easier access via the NEEO
portal.
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Reports
Reports can include research reports of various types. Reports can include government (advisory) reports,
forecasts, policy analyses, or simply summaries or final publications of research project results in report form.
References to these will be made available via the NEEO portal, as will full text to them where possible.

PhD theses, and research Masters theses
PhD theses will be aggregated by NEEO partners. Some NEEO partners have institutional mandates for
deposit of this material. Masters theses will also be aggregated by some partners if based on a research post.
Providing this material will promote the access to new research and its researchers.
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7 Summary of Activities
7.1 Investigating the needs of the economist in accessing and disseminating information
The project has studied the information retrieval and dissemination practices of European economists by
carrying out an online user survey and by conducting 4 focus groups in 4 of the partner institutions. It has
also used this study to verify the need for NEEO value-added services such as tailor-made publication lists,
statistics, selective dissemination of information, RSS feeds. This user study will be repeated by means of a
mid-term online questionnaire once the NEEO portal is in position as a means to follow changes in research,
dissemination and reader behaviour and to see whether NEEO has had an effect on user information retrieval
practices.
ACTIVITY
Executed
Consortium meeting and contacts
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Baseline questionnaire
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Design questions for the survey
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Launch and run user questionnaire
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Publicise user questionnaire
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D2.1 Baseline user questionnaire
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Analysis of results including free text comments
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D2.2 User requirement report
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Baseline focus groups
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Produce script or questioning route for focus groups
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Conduct focus groups
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Reporting
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Analysis of results of focus groups
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Report on focus groups with recommendations for work packages WP3-WP8
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Identification of content and service specifications
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D2.3 Report on content acquisition, content dissemination, and service
specifications
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Mid-Project Questionnaire
Negotiate with organisations over publicising and disseminating the online
questionnaire
Revisions to baseline questionnaire
Launch and run user questionnaire
D2.4 Mid-project questionnaire
Publicise user questionnaire
Analysis of results including free text comments
Report on mid-project user questionnaire to Project Management Group
WP1 with recommendations for any refinements to work packages WP3WP8
D2.5 Mid-project user requirement report
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7.2 The aggregation of content from decentralised sources
Research results are currently stored on the author websites/servers and on local hard drives of some of our
leading economists or in departmental, faculty or cross-institutional archives. This project is trying to organise
the storage and dissemination of that content in institutional repositories for open access and increased access
and visibility to our research results. As a first activity, economics information specialists from partner libraries
agreed on the collection development policy of the project. NEEO partners are aggregating the bibliographic
references and full texts of journal articles, working papers, book chapters, books, conference papers, reports,
etc. from their institutions’ economists directly as well as from other information sources mentioned above.
This material is being aggregated from over 800 leading economic researchers. Material is checked for
copyright restrictions before being added to safe institutional archives or so called “Institutional Repositories”.
Six core partners (The London School of Economics, Tilburg University, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Maastricht University, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) have collected
many of their resources in the first NEEO year to phase the activity, with other partners to follow suit in the
second year if not before. Some partners have either made agreements with departments or faculties to supply
them with data on a structural basis, have linked their Institutional Repositories with the local institutional
Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) to ensure only one-time deposit or they have taken on a CRIS
function themselves. These methods will better guarantee the regular and current delivery of authoritative
research output.
Six of the other ten partners have in fact begun ahead of time: (University of Oxford, UCL (London), Kiel
Institute for the World Economy, University College Dublin, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Sciences
Po) with libraries and their researchers keen to provide access to their content as soon as possible. NEEO will
have a significant amount of content in Year One and most partners will continue adding to their content stocks
in years 2 and 3, and to the Economists Online service.
NEEO partners are also focussing on retrieving the current content (present and last year’s output) of all of
the economists of their institutions. This may also include economists working in other faculties or
departments such as health economists or historians to make more material available. Partners have made
structural agreements with departments or faculties for researchers to send new publications to the library
when they submit their post-prints to publishers in some cases while others are retrieving this content on a
more ad hoc basis until structural solutions can be implemented. Work on retrieving this content will continue
for all partners during NEEO years 2 and 3.
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Oxford, UK; 569; 2%
Madrid 3, E; 523; 2% Sciences Po, F; 1121; 3%
Dublin, IRL; 364; 1%
Tilburg, NL*; 3657; 11%
UCL (London), UK; 156; 0%
Maastricht, NL; 2175; 7%
ZBW Kiel, D; 3065; 9%
ULB Brussels, B; 4058; 12%
KU Leuven, B; 10289; 31%
LSE, UK; 3480; 11%
EUR Rotterdam, NL; 3609; 11%
NEEO Full Text by partner (31.08.08)
Oxford, UK; 405; 4%
Dublin, IRL; 91; 1%
Tilburg, NL*; 1378; 12%
Sciences Po, F; 456; 4%
Madrid 3, E; 381; 3%
UCL (London), UK; 150; 1%
ZBW Kiel, D; 403; 4%
Maastricht, NL; 2146; 19%
EUR Rotterdam, NL; 2012; 18%
ULB Brussels, B; 1567; 14%
KU Leuven, B; 920; 8%
LSE, UK; 1321; 12%
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PhD theses; 97; 1%
Other; 81; 2%
Book chapters; 167; 1%
Journal articles; 3977; 36%
Working papers / discussion
papers; 6313; 57%
ACTIVITY
All partners submit monthly IR stats
Authors & advocacy
Identification of authors by each institution
M3.1 500 authors have been identified as participating in the project
D3.1 Report on identification of content for Core Content Group and
remaining partners
Contact with author - based on 500 x 2h
Enhance metadata
Aggregation of bibliographic publication lists from authors by core partners
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M3.3 Metadata on the bibliographic references aggregated by core content
group
M3.5 Metadata on the bibliographic references aggregated by partners in all
IRs
500 electronic automated publication lists of leading economists in Europe
Full-text object files
Clarification of IPR, aggregation and upload of ft content by core content
group
Clarification of IPR protection of academic output material by all partners
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Aggregate and upload object files from core authors and holdings into IRs
Aggregate and upload object files from NEEO 10 authors and holdings into
IRs
M3.4 Object files have been aggregated by core content partners in their IRs
D3.3 Content of Core Content Group online; incl. 200 electronic publication
lists
M3.6 Object files have been aggregated by all 16 partners in their IRs
D3.3 Content of all partners online; incl. 500 electronic publication lists report
75 % full text of current material online
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7.3 IPR issues
NEEO held a Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights for all NEEO partners working on an operational
level with their Institutional Repositories at the very start of the project. This was to raise awareness of the
legal issues of importance for the acquisition of content, storage and dissemination of data in IRs. The key
speaker was Wilma Mossink, SURF, The Netherlands. In addition, project partners were supplied with a
Copyright Toolkit, which was developed in consultation with them, to support them when acquiring their
content from authors. This written document contains existing publicly available IPR advice relevant to the
project, a number of FAQs which come from consultations with authors, links to further information, as well
as model letters to request self-archival of material from publishers and links to model licenses/agreements
for authors and publishers. It provides a short guide to copyright - basic principles & how they relate to
institutional repositories and also includes information on authors' rights - what is permitted and what is not.
Partners are adapting this and use it when liaising with their authors on IR deposit, which NEEO hopes will
alleviate some fears and encourage rather than discourage deposit.
This document is under regular development for improvement based on feedback given by partners, e.g. the
self-archiving policies of 20 leading economics journals have been added to the document and it will be
extended to cover the archival of datasets in NEEO project year 2.
ACTIVITY
IPR Workshop
Development of partner IPR advocacy programme
Creation of an IPR documentation toolkit
M3.2 IPR information available
D3.2 First report on IPR issues and IPR toolkit
Revised IPR documentation toolkit
IPR documentation toolkit updated to include data issues
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7.4 Datasets
Special attention will be given to datasets that are generated as part of the research process in NEEO’s second
year. Datasets will be made available which are in most cases not publicly available. Two NEEO partners
(Tilburg University and Erasmus University Rotterdam) have already participated in a national dataset
enhanced publication pilot project in NEEO’s first year, which has resulted in several datasets already being
available and lessons learnt here will be invaluable to NEEO. NEEO will be making the research data
generated by economists themselves publicly available (not datasets based on commercial statistical datasets)
and will concentrate on datasets for which unrestricted access is no concern (i.e. no copyright or privacy
problems). It will link the datasets to the related publications and make them available via the NEEO portal.
Work on this work package will start in month 15 proper.
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ACTIVITY
Inventory of IPR and privacy issue
M4.1 Issue report concerning IPR, incl. datasets issues
Selection & implementation data repository
Development of a report on the selection and implementation of the data
repository, incl. datasets issue report
D4.1 Report on the selection and implementation of the data repository incl.
datasets issue report
M4.2 Data repositories ready for DDI md input
D4.2 Data repositories with content report
Storing and describing datasets
Setting up procedures, guidelines etc.
Content acquisition plus data storage and description
Metadata enrichment: citing data sets by metadata
Providing integrated access via gateway
M4.3 Integrated access to datasets given via gateway
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7.5 Infrastructure and NEEO Gateway
The NEEO project has opted for an infrastructure and gateway based on a Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) model. The various building blocks are interlinked using current open standards technology such as
OAI-PMH and SRU.1819
The metadata of the publications and their full text files are harvested (the metadata is imported) from the
Institutional Repositories using OAI-PMH, in a format according to the NEEO application profile which is
based on the MPEG21-DIDL and MODS standards.2021 Every participating Institutional Repository needs to
develop the necessary software in order to comply with this NEEO application profile. A technical workshop
was held in March 2008 in order to explain the technical guidelines and choices and the various implications
of the standards and technologies on all NEEO partners. So far, crosswalks have been written for the DSpace,
EPrints, ARNO, and other home-made IR software platforms, and metadata is currently already being
regularly harvested from six project partners.
Another fundamental building block in the NEEO gateway is the search engine. After thorough examination
of the various alternatives, NEEO has opted for a suite of software tools around the Apache Lucene search
engine, known as Meresco. This system makes it possible to search through the NEEO metadata store using
the SRU open protocol after indexing the content of the partner institutional repositories. All EO end-user
services access the metadata store using SRU.
OAI-PMH : http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
SRU : http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/
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NEEO has developed a first version of the Economists Online portal, including a metadata search service and
a possibility to browse through the electronic publication lists of registered EO authors. The EO portal
screens have been designed by a NEEO working group, consisting of information specialists from 5
institutions, and was developed using the Wicket software. This has resulted in a portal interface that adheres
to the latest requirements in terms of end user experience, including facetted searching, AJAX technology and
OpenURL links.22 Electronic publication lists are viewable online and downloadable in multiple formats, i.e.
HTML, PDF and RTF for the EO authors of the six core partners.
An administrative procedure has been set up to allow for the decentralized registration of IRs and authors (for
whom individualized publication lists need to be created) by NEEO project partners. This registration process
is built around an RDF/XML structured file (based on the FOAF RDF vocabulary), to be maintained by each
of the project partners.23 This means that authors can be rapidly added or deleted if they leave the institution.
Future activities in NEEO Year 2 include the harvesting of all NEEO partners IRs and other web accessible
sources in economics, the seamless forwarding of information to RePEc services and other Internet search
engines like Google Scholar, as well as end-user services such as full-text searching, and alerting based on
RSS.2425 NEEO will also develop an automatic metadata enrichment process (in which the original metadata
gets enhanced with automatically generated JEL codes and references). Year 2 will also provide the necessary
infrastructure that permits the aggregation and presentation of usage metadata of publications held in the
partners IRs in the NEEO portal.
ACTIVITY
Adaptation IR solution
Adapt internal record structure to EO infrastructure specifications
Allow for definition, creation, and maintenance of EO OAI set
Adapt OAI frontend for exchange of NEEO compatible bibliographic and
object file metadata
Allow for creation, maintenance and exchange of NEEO compatible
usage metadata
Allow for exchange of NEEO compatible usage metadata
Allow for harvesting and integration of NEEO enriched metadata into
local IR
Integration with Copyright Knowledge Bank
Version signposting tool
NEEO Technical Guidelines and XML Schema for the exchange of
NEEO compatible bibliographic and object file metadata
Implementation of NEEO Gateway and SOA architecture
Set up of a NEEO RePEc archive
Automatic metadata enrichment
Automatic enrichment of metadata with JEL codes
Implementation of tools for transformation of references into semantically
well-defined metadata
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AJAX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
RDF : http://www.w3.org/RDF/
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RSS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
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FOAF : http://www.foaf-project.org/ and http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
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Gateway with basic services, e.g. metadata search service,
automated publication lists
Technical Workshop London interoperability and other later workshop (to
be planned)
Metadata search service
Design of search interface and first implementation
Testing and finalisation of search interface
Development of the automatic generation of publication lists
Full text search service and gateway with extended services, e.g.
RSS feeds, RePEc archive, metadata enhancement of JEL codes,
incl. testing
Selection and implementation of full text search service
Set-up of RSS alerting service
Architectecture for exchange & presentation of usage metadata &
usage statistical overview
Exchange of usage metadata
Development of usage reports
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7.6 Multilingual Issues
Part of NEEO’s source material is in languages other than English and since the project aims to respect the
linguistic diversity of the user community, certain material has been translated in the first NEEO year.
Although English is the lingua-franca for the economist, it is known that NEEO participants do not only
publish in English-speaking journals for example, and NEEO researchers have also informed the project that
they are still sometimes interested in having access to information in their own languages or would like to be
able to search in them. For this reason, the NEEO online user questionnaire and IPR documentation was
translated into French, German and Spanish by economics information specialists with Oxford colleagues
verifying some work. The Journal of Economic Literature Classification System (JEL) was translated in the
first year and the project is currently considering whether and how to make that data available other than via
the search system.26
In year 2, the gateway functions will be available in English, French, German and Spanish. Apart from
providing the search interface in four European languages, the metadata coming in from the local repositories
will also be searchable in these four languages by using translation tools by autumn 2009. Research into
current available tools and challenges with multilingual search software, has already taken place in year one,
liaising with the European Digital Library and several other experts. A student is also currently writing a
masters thesis by looking at NEEO data and various platforms to help NEEO make an informed decision on
the multilingual software to be used.
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JEL: http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html
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ACTIVITY
Questionnaire translations
Translation of online baseline questionnaire
User evaluation questionnaire
Translation of online evaluative questionnaire
Multilingual IPR documents
D6.1 IPR toolkit material in English German, French and Spanish
Multilingual interface
Translation of interfaces into 3 languages
Development of multilingual interface in gateway
JEL classification
JEL classification translation into 3 languages
Integration of the multilingual JEL into the NEEO gateway
Automatic metadata and query translation; incl. implementation and
testing
Research and selection of translation tool
M6.1 Translation tool selected
Development of the report on the selection of the translation tool
D6.2 Report on the selection of the translation tool
Implementation and testing of automatic metadata and query translation tool
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7.7 Assessment and evaluation
As part of the assessment and evaluation of the results of the project, partners have been delivering numbers
on the object and metadata files of their repositories to the work package leader responsible for publication
content aggregation. Table 2 is a product of this activity.
Table 2
Full text statistics from NEEO partners Year One
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Usage statistics such as downloads of documents are also being collected by the institutions. Plans are in
place to feed back some of this data to authors in the future once a common standard has been developed and
adopted by all partners in NEEO year 2. Progress has already been made with a sustainability and business
plan for NEEO, and lessons learnt have been aggregated from all partners for all work packages.
ACTIVITY
Full-text availability baseline
Partner aggregation of object file holding statistics of each economics
repository holding at 6 monthly intervals
M8.1 - IR object file statistics exist
Full-text use base-line
Partner monthly aggregation of FT download logs
6-monthly aggregation of user statistics on FT downloads from all partners
M8.2 - User log files of the gateway exist
Evaluation questionnaire development, launch, report
Negotiate with organisations over publicising and disseminating the online
questionnaire
Revisions to questionnaire and finalisation
Launch user questionnaire
Publicise user questionnaire
M8.3 User evaluation has taken place
Analysis of results including free text comments
Sustainability and business plan
D8.1 First version of the business and sustainability plan
D8.3 Final sustainability and business plan
User satisfaction / Evaluation report
Development of user satisfaction / evaluation report
D8.2 User satisfaction / Evaluation report
Lessons learnt and model infrastructure report
Maintenance of a lessons learnt log by all partners
Lessons learnt and Model infrastructure report
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7.8 Dissemination and Awareness
Project partners will disseminate NEEO results and create awareness in the broader field of economics as
well as in the library and open access community, and other scientific disciplines to ensure that the project
has maximum impact. NEEO visibility has already increased in the first year through its presence at several
prestigious professional conferences. NEEO has been invited to speak at both international publisher, library,
as well as national events. NEEO has also exhibited at two international economics conferences with its own
stand. The design and development of various PR materials such as a flyer, leaflet, poster and website have
served to inform NEEO’s researchers of the project and have helped as part of local project advocacy
programmes. Year 2 will see more presence at conferences and in journals to share experiences and show the
working portal. A new leaflet will also be produced and work will increase to distribute NEEO content to
other economics information services identified from the NEEO user survey.
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ACTIVITY
Communication plan
PR materials
M7.1.1 6-page project leaflet
M7.1.2 2 A1 posters
M7.1.3 Public project website
D7.1 Public project website
D7.2 NEEO presentation
M7.1.4 Second 6-page project leaflet
M7.1 EO PR materials exist
Content distribution
M7.2 An awareness and dissemination plan exists
D7.3 Awareness and dissemination plan
M7.3 An inventory of key service providers
5 information providers identified for the harvesting of NEEO content
Definition of access mechanisms for further dissemination of content to key
information service providers
A list of key information providers where EO content can be found beyond its
gateway
Dissemination activities (general)
Dissemination at 9 international and national events, writing articles
A list of conferences and publications at which EO has been disseminated
Organisation of Final Conference
D7.4 Final Conference
Execution of 4 articles on NEEO
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8 Impact & Sustainability
The eContentPlus Work Programme is creating better conditions for accessing, (re)using and exploiting
digital material across Europe in benefit of students, researchers, individuals as well as organisations.27 The
NEEO project will aggregate the economics research material produced by NEEO partners to make as much
of it as possible freely accessible online. This will thereby increase the visibility and consequent impact of
leading research results and hopes to further the development of economics research. Furthermore, the
content, services and added features of the Economists Online (EO) portal will follow the information
retrieval and dissemination demands of European researchers as identified in a recent cross-country
consultation amongst economists by the project.28
8.1
NEEO’s contribution to European Economics Research
Findings from previous studies commissioned by the European Economics Association (EEA) have revealed
that there is a European market for subject-oriented information services in terms of both, potential end users
and under-exploited sources of academic content.29 It is estimated that up until the year 2000, there were over
20,000 active economics researchers in Europe who contributed approximately one quarter of the world’s
academic publications in this field. However, only one sixth of the world’s citations refer to European
publications which suggest that there are weaknesses in dissemination practices, access and visibility. This
appears not to depend exclusively on the quality of the actual publications as the top-10 European economics
departments show similar results.30 Conversely, U.S. institutions, both overall and the top-10 organisations,
show an increase in the number of international citations compared to the total number of international
publications.
NEEO partners are in a position to make a change to this tendency as they can provide high quality content,
facilitate the continued aggregation of quality content and rapidly disseminate those results through open
access world-wide via its repositories and services. NEEO partners currently include leading academic
institutions from eight different countries in Western Europe (The UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France,
Germany, Ireland, Spain and the Czech Republic), totalling approximately 3,000 research and teaching staff
in addition to over 55,000 students of Business and Economics. Furthermore, the majority of NEEO partners
appear in the top-25 European Economics departments according to a ranking based on the quality of
publications, including four of the top-5 ranked institutions.31
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eContentplus (2008) A Multi-annual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and
exploitable (2005-2008). Work Programme 2008. European Commission - Information Society and Media Directorate. [Online]
Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/docs/call_2008/7_en_annex1_2008_wp.pdf
28
Torres-Vitolas CA, Blake B and Shipsey F. (2008) User Requirement Report. Report D2.2. [Unpublished]. NEEO.
29
Combes, P.P. and Linnemer, L. (2003) Where are the Economists who Publish? Publication Concentration and Rankings in
Europe based on Cumulative Publications. Journal of the European Economic Association Vol. 1, No. 6: 1250–1308.
Coupé, T. (2003) Revealed Performances: Worldwide Rankings of Economists and Economics Departments, 1990-2000. Journal
of the European Economic Association 1 (6): 1309-1345. Pantelis K, Mamuneas TP and Stengos T. (2003) Rankings of Academic
journals and Institutions in Economics. Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (6): 1346-1366
30
Dreza, J.H. and Estevan, F. (2007) Research and Higher Education in Economics: Can we deliver the Lisbon objectives?
Journal of the European Economics Association 5 (2-3): 271-304.
31
Lubrano, M., Bauwens, L., Kirman, A. and Protopopescu, C. (2003) Ranking Economics Departments in Europe: A Statistical
Approach. Journal of the European Economic Association Vol. 1, No. 6: 1367–1401
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8.2
Online information services for economists
NEEO aims to facilitate and improve on the open access to European economics research and thereby
increase the visibility of high quality academic results internationally. Other search services are also
improving access to information world-wide.
Google and Google Scholar are very widely used search engines by economists. However, different studies
have reported that Google is not yet configured to search the deep web (e.g. library data catalogues) and so
open-access material tends to be under-represented.32 A prospective study of Google Scholar reported a
similar limited coverage of open access journals.33 The quality of both Google and Google Scholar content is
diverse as both index non-refereed and non-published documents as well as refereed material.34 In addition,
the extensive coverage of material by Google Scholar can make searching for academic papers unreliable and
cumbersome as Google search options do not allow a precise exploration of academic material: subject
searches are broadly defined (e.g. Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities are considered one single subject)
and it is not possible to search by subject specialities, neither is searching in the abstract nor the sorting of
search results possible at this time. In addition, though Google and Google Scholar provide access to the
content-stocks of large publishers, the full text is not necessarily open to all but only accessible on payment or
via a license.
Google’s popularity makes Google Scholar an important window of academic research; however, its use is
recommended for exploratory purposes only. Although it provides interesting services for the user such as
citation counts and related links, the identification of authors can be inadequate producing problems of
homonymy and duplication which can also render unrelated results. It is also uncertain as to how frequently
Google Scholar updates its index.35
NEEO will try to forge relations with Google to boost the distribution of its content via Google Scholar and
Google to ensure that the work of NEEO authors has as good visible presence as possible. However, NEEO is
different in that it offers more extended search facilities and quality content while enhancing the visibility of
research and making as much of its material freely accessible to all. Google is a resource discovery tool while
NEEO offers more search options to the researcher as well as better access to full-text scholarship.
RePEc and SSRN are two of the most important Economics names in online information services aimed at
enhancing the world-wide dissemination of Economics research.36 However, their different business models
and operative frameworks have their drawbacks:
32 McCown F., Liu X., Nelson ML. and Zubair, M. (2006) Search engine coverage of the OAI-PMH corpus. IEEE Internet
Computing 10(2): 66-73. Accessible at: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2006.41. Hagedon K., Santelly J. (2008)
Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs. D-Lib Magazine 14 (7-8). Accessible at:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html. Mayr P. and Walter, AK. (2007) An Exploratory study of Google
Scholar. Online Informative Review 31 (6): 814-830
33
Mayr P. and Walter, AK. (2007) An Exploratory study of Google Scholar. Online Informative Review 31 (6): 814-830
34
Kayvan, K. and Thelwall, M. (2008) Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison
between four science disciplines. Scientometrics, 74 (2): 273-294
35
Jacsó, P (2005) Google Scholar: The pros and cons. Online Information Review 29 (2): 208-214. Mayr and Walter (2007)
op. cit. Meho LI and Yang K (2007) Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science
versus scopus and google scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58 (13): 21052125
36
Cybermetrics Lab (2008) Ranking Web of World Repositories. [Online]. Available at:
http://repositories.webometrics.info/top300_rep.asp
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RePEC is a large international collaborative effort that relies on the work of a group of volunteers.
Decentralised archives feed its services such as IDEAS and EconPapers which are based on publisher series.
RePEc started with institutional based series with working and discussion papers. There
are also series with other content such as software. All this material is generally
freely downloadable. Large publishers also provide RePEc archives, however, most of these do not give
access to the full text unless the user has a personal or institutional subscription or provides payment. In
addition, RePEc provides authors’ rankings, citations analysis of RePEc documents as well as author and
institutional directories. The presence of books (chapters), conference papers and theses is also much smaller
than its other collections. Open and free access to such material, including journal articles, is slim compared
to its working and discussion paper and software collections, as are datasets which NEEO will focus on in
Year 2. RePEc’s content is also reliant on publishers and institutions providing RePEc archives which can
mean that author overviews are incomplete. RePEc relies on voluntary work, which can lead to a lack of
currency and quality metadata. The increase in content from leading researchers could also increase the
quality of RePEc content.
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SSRN is a scholarly repository for Economics, Accounting, Law and related disciplines. The service
is diversified into different networks according to specialisation (e.g. Health Economics Network,
Marketing Research Network, etc). Academic papers can be uploaded directly by authors and become
available worldwide for free downloading although some institutions will have to pay to upload and
disseminate research results to them. SSRN offers abstracting e-mail journals and periodically
distribute emails containing abstracts of papers recently submitted. Its data library is smaller than
RePEc’s but it provides a more friendly-user design as well as more regularly up-dated links. In
addition, it also offers journal content from major publishers and, like RePEc, they are mainly tollgated, i.e. a license will allow you access to the full text in most cases. Other services provided are
rankings of institutions, authors and papers are freely available to registered users. SSRN finances
itself mainly through fees from institutions that outsource the distribution of their research papers
through SSRN, fees received for professional and job announcements, conference fees for SSRN's
Conference Management System and fees shared with publishers who distribute their papers through
SSRN on a pay per download basis.37 Those costs limit the access to SSRN services to less wellfunded institutions, increasing - by association - the existing dissemination gap between European and
American institutions. Additionally, the SSRN abstracting service, compulsory for all uploaded
papers, filter-out direct links to document versions held in non-SSRN (or partners) download sites,
restricting the promotion of other open-access initiatives.38 SSRN neither provides a full-text search
service, which is a substantial barrier to locating scholarship. Finally, there is a clear American bias in
relation to its content and so the sharing of both European and non-English material in its data
collection is limited.
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Jensen, M.C. (2007) SSRN's Objectives and Commitments to Users [Online] Chairman - Social Science Research Network.
Available at: http://ssrn.com/update/general/mjensen.html. [Last accessed: August 20, 2008]
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Grimmelmann, JTL (2007) SSRN Considered Harmful. [Online] Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=965633
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The NEEO Project will offer end-users a series of advantages in comparison to RePEc and SSRN. It will
supply currently scarce material not covered by them online such as book (chapters), conference proceedings
and datasets; it will promote and stimulate the production of freely-accessible full-texts and access for all; it
will provide high-quality metadata and state-of-the-art services making searches render active and useful
results. The complete publication lists of leading European names in economics, with as many links to the full
text will be made available through NEEO. NEEO will also provide a full text search service, which neither
SSRN nor RePEc services currently do. In addition, NEEO will provide an answer to American-dominated
sites and become a showcase for European academic research whilst its multilingual search system, to be
available in 2009, will enhance the visibility of non-English material. However, NEEO will also further
disseminate its content to RePEc due to its importance as a huge information resource, for example, by
developing a RePEc archive to increase access to quality European research world-wide.
The ISI-Web of Knowledge academic database is one of the most heavily used sites for citation information
utilised by economists.39 However, there are certain drawbacks in this service: it covers mainly NorthAmerican, Western European and English-language titles. ISI considers only a limited number of journals,
and does not count citations from books and most conference proceedings not to mention other citation
problems.40 NEEO, as a European service, will complement ISI by providing a different assessment (e.g.
number of full text downloads) of the impact of the whole of European economics research output.
8.3
Introducing NEEO to the market
The introduction of EO to the market of subject-oriented online resources for academics will be carried out in
two phases. The first version of the portal will be launched in late 2008 or the beginning of 2009 and the
project is currently exploring how to most effectively publicize the forthcoming service.. It includes basic
services such as metadata searching and publications lists of six NEEO partner institutional repositories. This
initial version will be re-assessed and modified following user feed-back in year 2. August 2009 will see the
final version of the service released and it will include added-value services, including a full-text search
service, a RePEc archive, RSS feeds, (semi) automatic metadata enrichment, and multi-lingual searching.
When EO’s final version is released, it will have a very strong position in terms of both mass and quality of
its content. It will be able to provide 50,000 bibliographic references, access to 10,000 full-text files and 160
datasets. An information campaign that increases the awareness of the service through advocacy and publicity
materials, presentations and poster sessions, press releases, articles in Economics-related and information
science journals and a final international conference will help boost NEEO’s service impact. There will also
be links to NEEO from member institution websites. The final conference will take place at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands and work has begun on this event to be held in January 2010.
39
ISI Web of Knowledge:
http://apps.isiknowledge.com/UA_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=R2FioPH1CLPfOjC
PaGp&preferencesSaved=
40
Mcho, L and Yang K. (2006) Citation Analysis: A Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. Proceedings of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology 43 (1): Pages: 185
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8.4
Towards sustainability
NEEO partners are currently in the process of developing a business and sustainability plan which will
include the total costs and scenarios involved in the continuation and further development of the project’s
results. The sustainability of the end-product of the project is guaranteed by the commitment of NEEO
partner institutions to develop and sustain their respective institutional repositories whilst Tilburg University
will run the gateway after termination of the project as part of its strategic plan for international collaboration
and support. NEEO has promised to increase its number of partners from 16 to 20 by the time NEEO is fully
released in 2009 and as in August 2008, four concrete candidates already exist.
The project will also explore the feasibility of alternative sources of income to guarantee the long-term
financial sustainability and expansion of the service. These are likely to be related to the development of
added-services as part of EO and the accumulated know-how developed through the project.
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Annexes
Annex 1: List of participating scholars (as of 22 August 2008)
For the latest updated list of names see also: http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo_authors.html)
The following leading European scholars are working together with NEEO to make as much of their
scientific output digitally accessible in order to to share it with the academic community.
As of 24 July 2008, over 800 economists will participate in NEEO/Economists Online.
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Tilburg University
Dr. Y. Adema
Prof.dr. H.A. Akkermans
Prof.dr. T. Beck
Dr. J. Binswanger
Dr. J.P.C. Blanc
Dr. O. Boldea
Prof. Dr. J. Boone
Prof. Dr. Peter Borm
Prof. Dr. J.F.M.G. Bouwens
Prof. Dr. Lans Bovenberg
Dr. F. Braggion
Dr. D.P. Broer
Prof. Dr. Ir. B.J.J.A.M. Bronnenberg
Prof. Dr. W.F.J. Buijink
Dr. Ir. Erwin Bulte
Dr. E. Cardinaels
Dr. K.G. Carman
Dr. F. Castiglionesi
Dr. H.P. van Dalen
Dr. Ir. E.R. van Dam
Prof. Dr. Eric van Damme
Dr. M. Da Rin
Prof. Dr. H.A. Degryse
Prof. Dr. M.G. Dekimpe
Dr. B. Deleersnyder
Dr. A.M.B. De Waegenaere
Dr. F.C. Drost
Prof. Dr. Sylvester Eijffinger
Prof. Dr. John Einmahl
Associate Prof. Dr. Jacob Engwerda
Prof.Dr.Ir. H.A. Fleuren
Prof. Dr. B.B. van Genugten
Prof. Dr. I. Geyskens
Prof. Dr. E. Gijsbrechts
Dr. P.C. de Goeij
Dr.ing. W.J.H. (Willem) van Groenendaal
Dr. J.A.C. de Haan
Dr. ir. W. H. Haemers
Dr. Z.L. He
Dr. R.L.P. Hendrickx
Prof. Dr. J.M.A. Hennart
Prof. Dr. Ir. D. den Hertog
Prof. Dr. Harry Huizinga
Dr. J. Inkmann
Dr. V.P. Ioannidou
Prof. Dr. M. J. James
Dr. M.A. Jeusfeld
Prof. Dr. F.C.J.M. de Jong
Prof. Dr. Ir. A. Kapteyn
Prof. Dr. J.P.C. Kleijnen
Dr. T.J. Klein
Dr. E. de Klerk
Prof. Dr. C.G. Koedijk
Prof. Dr. P. Kooreman
Prof. Dr. Peter Kort
Prof. Dr. L.A.G.M. van Lent
Prof. Dr. J.E. Ligthart
Prof. Dr. X.Y.F. Martin
Prof. Dr. A.C. Meijdam
Prof. Dr. B. Melenberg
Dr. I. Mosca
Prof. Dr. W. Mueller
Prof. Dr. Theo Nijman
Prof. Dr. N.G. Noorderhaven
Prof. Dr. B. Nooteboom
Prof. Dr. H.W. Norde
Prof. Dr. C.N. Noussair
Prof. Dr. S.R.G. Ongena
Prof. Dr. Ir. Jan van Ours
Prof. Dr. Ir. M.P. Papazoglou
Dr.ir. M.J.P. Peeters
Prof. Dr. J.M. Pennings
Prof. Dr. F.G.M. Pieters
Dr. E.H.M. Ponds
Prof. Dr. J.J.M. Potters
Dr. J. O. Prüfer
Dr. M.H. ten Raa
Prof. Dr. L.D.R. Renneboog
Prof. Dr. P.M.A. Ribbers
Dr. A.F. Rutkowski
Prof. Dr. J.M. Schumacher
Dr. P. Sengmuller
Dr. Sjak Smulders
Prof. Dr. A.H.O. van Soest
Dr. D.P. van Soest
Dr. R. Sotirov
Dr. S. Suetens
Prof. Dr. Dolf Talman
Prof. Dr. Stef Tijs
Dr. F.M.P. Vermeulen
Dr. W.B. Wagner
Prof. Dr. B.J.M. Werker
Prof. Dr. M.M.T.A. Willekens
Dr.ir. B.R.R. Willems
Prof.dr. C.A.A.M. Withagen
Dr. S.H.K. Wuyts
Dr. M. Zanardi
Prof. Dr. A.J. de Zeeuw
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University College London
University of Oxford
Dr Jerome Adda
Dr Beatriz Armendariz
Prof. Mark Armstrong
Prof. Orazio Attanasio
Professor Balasz Szentes
Prof. James Banks
Dr Samuel Berlinski
Prof. Wilfred Beckerman
Prof. V Bhaskar
Prof. Kenneth Binmore CBE
Prof. Richard Blundell
Prof. Wendy Carlin
Dr Pedro Carneiro
Prof. Andrew Chesher
Prof. Victoria Chick
Dr Syngjoo Choi
Prof. Martin Cripps
Prof. James Durbin, FBA
Prof. Christian Dustmann
Dr Sven Fischer
Dr RaffaellaGiocomini
Dr Hugh Goodacre
Dr Liam Graham
Prof. Rachel Griffith
Dr Antonio Guarino
James Heckman
Prof. Steffen Huck
Prof. Philippe Jehiel
Prof. Guy Laroque
Dr Valerie Lechene
Dr Sokbae (Simon) Lee
Dr Jeremy Lise
Prof. Stephen Machin
Prof. Costas (Konstantinos) Meghir, FBA
Dr Lars Nesheim
Dr Nicola Pavoni
Dr Malcolm Pemberton
Prof. Ian Preston
Dr Imran Rasul
Prof. Jean-Marc Robin
Dr Adam Rosen
Prof. Stephen Smith
Prof. Ran Speigler
Prof. Timothy Swanson
Dr Richard Vaughan
Dr Marcos Vera Hernandez
Dr Donald Verry
Prof. Robert C. Allen
Mr David Bevan
Prof. Paul Collier
Dr Simon G.B. Cowan
Prof. Stefan Dercon
Prof. Marcel Fafchamps
Prof. Valpy Fitzgerald
Dr Christine A. Greenhalgh
Dr Mary B. Gregory
Dr Dieter Helm
Prof. David F. Hendry
Dr Cameron J.Hepburn
Prof. Tim Jenkinson
Mr Vijay R. Joshi
Prof. Paul D. Klemperer
Prof. John B. Knight
Prof. James Malcomson
Prof. Colin P. Mayer
Prof. John N. Muellbauer
Dr David Myatt
Prof. J. Peter Neary
Prof. Stephen Nickell
Dr Bent Nielsen
Prof. Avner Offer
Prof. Kevin Roberts
Prof. Neil Shephard
Dr Margaret J. Stevens
Prof. Frances J. Stewart
Prof. Tony Venables
Sir John Vickers
Prof. David A. Vines
Dr Chris Wallace
Prof. Simon Wren-Lewis
Prof. Peyton Young
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Université Libre de Bruxelles
Charles University in Prague, CERGE
Prof. Dr. Didier Baudewyns
Prof. Dr. Benoît Bayenet
Prof. Dr. Michel Beine
Prof. Dr. Estelle Cantillon
Prof. Dr. Henri Capron
Prof. Dr. Micael Castanheira
Prof. Dr. Ariane Chapelle
Prof. Dr. Michele Cincera
Prof. Dr. Paola Conconi
Prof. Dr. Jérôme De Henau
Prof. Dr. Jean-Luc De Meulemeester
Prof. Dr. Bram De Rock
Prof. Dr. Griselda Deelstra
Prof. Dr. Catherine Dehon
Prof. Dr. Mathias Dewatripont
Prof. Dr. André Farber
Prof. Dr. Domenico Giannone
Prof. Dr. Victor Ginsburgh
Prof. Dr. Lydia Greunz
Prof. Dr. Marc Hallin
Prof. Dr. Maria Jepsen
Prof. Dr. Güngör Karakaya
Prof. Dr. Paul Kestens
Prof. Dr. Georg Kirchsteiger
Prof. Dr. Robert Kollmann
Prof. Dr. Martine Labbé
Prof. Dr. Thierry Lallemand
Prof. Dr. Patrick Legros
Prof. Dr. Bertrand Mareschal
Prof. Dr. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
Prof. Dr. Danièle Meulders
Prof. Dr. Julia Nafziger
Prof. Dr. Abdul Noury
Prof. Dr. Síle O'Dorchai
Prof. Dr. Kim Oosterlinck
Prof. Dr. Davy Paindaveine
Prof. Dr. Carine Peeters
Prof. Dr. Robert Plasman
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Puglisi
Prof. Dr. Lucrezia Reichlin
Prof. Dr. Astrid Romain
Prof. Dr. Micael Rusinek
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Ruz Torres
Prof. Dr. François Rycx
Prof. Dr. André Sapir
Prof. Dr. Khalid Sekkat
Prof. Dr. Salimata Sissoko
Prof. Dr. Ariane Szafarz
Prof. Dr. Ilan Tojerow
Prof. Dr. Daniel Traca
Prof. Dr. Bruno Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Prof. Dr. Patrick Van Roy
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Verardi
Prof. Dr. David Veredas
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Zanardi
Prof. Ronald W. Anderson Ph.D.
Ian Babetskii (Babeckij) Ph.D.
Volha Belush M.Sc., M.A.
Jan Bena Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Radim Bohacek Ph.D.
Lubos Briatka Mgr., M.A.
Ass. Prof. Levent Celik Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Junghun Cho Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Libor Dusek Ph.D.
Prof. Randall K. Filer Ph.D.
Prof. Jan Hanousek RN Dr. CSc.
Ass. Prof. Byeongju Jeong Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Stepan Jurajda Doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Peter Katuscak M.A., MBA.
Elena Kazakova M.A.
Ass. Prof. Michal Kejak Ing. M.A., CSc.
Prof. Jan Kmenta Ph.D.
Prof. Evzen Kocenda Ing.Ph.D.
Dmitri Kolyuzhnov M.A.
Eugen Kovac RN Dr., M.A.
Prof. Lubomir Lizal Doc., Ing. Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Daniel Munich Doc., Ing.Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Andreas Ortmann Doc.Ph.D.
Teodora Paligorova M.A.
Prof. Gérard Roland Ph.D.
Ondrej Rydval M.A.
Prof. Avner Shaked Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Sergey Slobodyan Ph.D.
Prof. Jan Svejnar Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Viatcheslav Vinogradov Ph.D.
Ass.Prof. Petr Zemcik Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. Kresimir Zigic Ph.D.
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Maastricht University
Dr. Rob Bauer
Dr. Peter Berends
Dr. Vera Blazevic
Dr. Boris Blumberg
Dr. Olivier Bochet
Dr. Andriy Bodnaruk
Dr. Laury Bollen
Prof. Dr. Lex Borghans
Dr. Kristof Bosmans
Dr. Piet van den Bossche
Dr. Els Breugelmans
Dr. Alexander Brüggen
Dr. Elisabeth Brüggen-Deutskens
Dr. Rachel Campbell
Dr. Bertrand Candelon
Prof. Dr. Martin Carree
Dr. Julio Carrillo
Dr. Kathleen Cleeren
Dr. Rick Cuijpers
Dr. Jeroen Derwall
Dr. Rogier Deumes
Dr. Franz Dietriech
Dr. Stuart Dixon
Dr. Arnaud Dupuy
Prof. Dr. Piet Eichholtz
Dr. Michael Eichler
Prof. Dr. J. Wil Foppen
Dr. Bram Foubert
Dr. Anne Gielen
Prof. Dr. Wim Gijselaers
Dr. Anita van Gils
Dr. Ursula Glunk
Dr. Alexander Grigoriev
Prof. Dr. Andries de Grip
Prof. Dr. John Hagedoorn
Prof. Dr. Harold Hassink RA
Dr. Alain Hecq
Prof. Dr. Hans Heijke
Prof. Dr. Marielle Heijltjes
Dr. Walter Hendriks
Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Herings
Prof. Dr. Friso den Hertog
Prof. Dr. Ir. Stan van Hoesel
Dr. Jeannette Hommes
Dr. Rahmi Ilkilic
Dr. Ad van Iterson
Dr. Thijs Jansen
Prof. Dr. Hans Kasper
Dr. Cagatay Kayi
Dr. Bettina Klaus
Dr. Stefanie Kleimeier
Prof. Dr. Joris van de Klundert
Dr. László Á. Kóczy
Dr. Thorsten Lehnert
Prof. Dr. Jos Lemmink
Dr. Wilko Letterie
Dr. Boris Lokshin
Dr. Sarianna Lundan
Dr. Frank Lutgens
Dr. Huub Meijers
Dr. Christoph Meng
Dr. Roger Meuwissen RA
Prof. Dr. Hans van Mierlo
Dr. Frank Moers
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Müller
Prof. Dr. Joan Muysken
Prof. Dr. Chris de Neubourg
Dr. Gaby Odekerken-Schröder
Dr. Rogér Otten
Dr. Hans Ouwersloot
Prof. Dr. Franz Palm
Dr. Piet Pauwels
Dr. Erik Peek
Dr. Ronald Peeters
Prof. Dr. Ir. Joost Pennings
Dr. Ir. Andres Perea y Monsuwe
Prof. Dr. Hans Peters
Prof. Dr. Gerard Pfann
Dr. Arkadi Predtetchinski
Dr. Lieven Quintens
Dr. Wladimir Raymond
Dr. Erik de Regt
Dr. J. Philipp Reiss
Prof. Dr. Arno Riedl
Dr. Allard van Riel
Prof. Dr. Robert Roe
Prof. Dr. Ko de Ruyter
Dr. René Saran
Dr. Caren Schelleman
Dr. Sybrand Schim van der Loeff
Prof. Dr. Peter Schotman
Prof. Dr. Janjaap Semeijn
Prof. Dr. Luc Soete
Dr. Ton Storcken
Dr. Stefan Straetmans
Dr. Sandra Streukens
Dr. Martin Strobel
Dr. Wim Swaan
Dr. Dirk Tempelaar
Dr. Brenda van Tendeloo
Dr. Marc Uetz
Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Urbain
Prof. Dr. Eddy Vaassen RA
Dr. Ann Vanstraelen
Dr. Tom van Veen
Prof. Dr. Rolf van der Velden
Dr. Maarten Vendrik
Dr. Dries Vermeulen
Dr. Mark Vluggen
Dr. Marc Vorsatz
Dr. Tjark Vredeveld
Dr. Rita Walczuch
Prof. Dr. Mary Waller
Dr. Markus Walzl
Dr. Marc van Wegberg
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Prof. Dr. Martin Wetzels
Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff
Dr. Thomas Ziesemer
Dr. Adriaan van Zon
Dr. Jim Allen
Anthony Arundel
Dr. André Berger
Dr. Cataline Bordoy
Charlotte Büchner
Johan Coenen
Prof. Dr. Frank Cörvers
Dr. Thomas Dohmen
Prof. Dr. Geert Duysters
Dr. Didier Fouarge
Ruud Gerards
Karsten Gerloff
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Rudiger Glott
Dr. Caroline Goukens
Kirsten Haaland
Raoul Haenbeukers
Hugo Hollanders
Y-H Huang
Ron Jongen
Minna Kanerva
Dr. Ben Kriechel
Raymond Montizaan
Claire Nauwelaers
Annemarie Nelen
Dr. Jan Nijhuis
Ger Ramaekers
Dr. Rossitza Rousseva
Dr. Bulat Sanditov
Jan Sauermann
Rebecca Schindler
Dr. Albert Schram
Raf Sluismans
Prof. Dr. Adam (Eddy) Szirmai
Dr. Adam Tatarynowicz
Rifka Weehuizen
Dr. René Wintjes
German National Library of Economics/
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Frank Bickenbach
Dr. Eckhardt Bode
Dr. Alfred Boss
Alessio J. G. Brown
Dr. Dirk Dohse
Jonas Dovern
Prof. Dr. Federico Foders
Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Gern
Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D.
Dennis Görlich
PD Dr. Erich Gundlach
Michael Hübler
Prof. Gernot Klepper, Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Henning Klodt
Christiane Krieger-Boden
Dr. Claus-Friedrich Laaser
Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer
Dr. Jann Lay
Prof. Dr. Harmen Lehment
Thomas S. Lontzek
Dr. Matthias Lücke
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux
Dr. Carsten-Patrick Meier
Dr. Christian Merkl
Dr. Peter Nunnenkamp
Toman Omar Mahmoud
Frank Oskamp
Dr. Sonja Peterson
Prof. Dr. Katrin Rehdanz
Wilfried Rickels
Dr. Astrid Rosenschon
Dr. Birgit Sander
Prof. Dr. Joachim Scheide
Dr. Klaus Schrader
Dr. Rainer Schweickert
Prof. Dr. Horst Siebert (President emeritus of Kiel Institute)
Prof. Dennis Snower, Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Soltwedel
Dr. Jürgen Stehn
Dr. Michael Stolpe
Mewael F. Tesfaselassie, Ph.D.
Dr. Rainer Thiele
Dr. Manfred Wiebelt
Dr. Harmut Wolf
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University College Dublin
Dr Olivier Bargain
Prof. Dr Jim Bergin
Dr Tiziana Brancaccio
Dr Finbarr Brereton
Dr Craig Bullock
Prof. Peter Clinch
Prof. Frank Convery
Dr Liam Delaney
Dr Kevin Denny
Prof. Paul Devereux
Dr Corrado Di Maria
Dr Orla Doyle
Dr Louise Dunne
Dr Joseph Durkan
Dr Lisa Farrell
Dr Susana Ferreira
Prof. Colm Harmon
Dr Vincent Hogan
Dr William Hynes
Dr Kanika Kapur
Prof. Morgan Kelly
Prof. David Madden
Mr Colm McCarthy
Mr Moore McDowell
Prof. Brian Nolan
Prof. Cormac O Grada
Dr Sarah Parlane
Dr Ivan Pastine
Dr Aisling Reynolds-Feighan
Dr Lisa Ryan
Prof. Rodney Thom
Prof. Brendan Walsh
Dr Frank Walsh
Prof. Karl Whelan
Dr Ciara Whelan
Dr. Brendan Williams
London School of Economics and Political
Science
Prof. Nick Barr
Dr. Gianluca Benigno
Prof. Tim Besley
Dr. Robin Burgess
Prof. Francesco Caselli
Prof. Frank Cowell
Prof. Leonardo Felli
Prof. Lucien Foldes
Prof. John Hills
Prof. Richard Jackman
Prof. Howard Glennerster
Prof. Julian Le Grand
Prof. Oliver Linton
Prof. David Marsden
Prof. Martin Pesendorfer
Prof. Andrea Prat
Prof. Michele Piccione
Prof. Chris Pissarides
Prof. Danny Quah
Prof. Peter Robinson
Prof. Mark Schankerman
Prof. Nick Stern
Prof. John Sutton
Prof. John Van Reenen
Prof. Christine Whitehead
Mr. Alan Marin
Dr. Kosuke Aoki
Dr. Oriana Bandiera
Dr. Bernardo Guimaraes
Dr. Vassilis Hajivassiliou
Dr. Christian Julliard
Dr Henrik Kleven
Dr. Valentino Larcinese
Dr. Jonathan Leape
Dr. Gilat Levy
Dr. Sandra McNally
Dr. Alex Michaelides
Dr. Guy Michaels
Dr. L. Rachel Ngai
Dr. Gerard Padro I Miquel
Dr. Barbara Petrongolo
Dr. Rohit Rahi
Dr. Stephen Redding
Dr. Pasquale Schiraldi
Dr Judith Shapiro
Dr. Kevin Sheedy
Dr. Silvana Tenreyro
Dr. Georg Weizsacker
Dr. Chenggang Xu
Prof. Qiwei Yao
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof. Filip Abraham
Prof. Bart Baesens
Prof. Constant Beckers
Prof. René Belderbos
Prof. Luk Bouckaert
Prof. Sabrina Bruyneel
Prof. John Burger
Prof. Erik Buyst
Prof. Katia Campo
Prof. Laurens Cherchye
Prof. Gerda Claeskens
Prof. Christophe Crombez
Prof. Christophe Croux
Prof. Dirk Czarnitzki
Prof. Herman Daems
Prof. Raymond De Bondt
Prof. Guido De Bruyne
Prof. Paul De Grauwe
Prof. Koenraad Debackere
Prof. André Decoster
Prof. Guido Dedene
Prof. Hans Degryse
Prof. Marnik Dekimpe
Prof. Erik Demeulemeester
Prof. Hans Dewachter
Prof. Siegfried Dewitte
Prof. Geert Dhaene
Prof. Jan Dhaene
Prof. Yvo Dirickx
Prof. Pierre François
Prof. Ann Gaeremynck
Prof. Wolfgang Glänzel
Prof. Willy Gochet
Prof. Maarten Goos
Prof. Marc Goovaerts
Prof. Dirk Heremans
Prof. Willy Herroelen
Prof. Jeroen Hinloopen
Prof. Nancy Huyghebaert
Prof. Daniël Janssens
Prof. Maddy Janssens
Prof. Auke Jongbloed
Prof. Joep Konings
Prof. Marc Lambrecht
Prof. Luc Lauwers
Prof. Christian Lefebvre
Prof. Wilfried Lemahieu
Prof. Roel Leus
Prof. Wim Moesen
Prof. Luc Mondelaers
Prof. Robrecht Overlaet
Prof. Stef Proost
Prof. Ferdinand Put
Prof. Annelies Renders
Prof. Filip Roodhooft
Prof. Erik Schokkaert
Prof. Jo Seldeslachts
Prof. Luc Sels
Prof. Piet Sercu
Prof. Leo Sleuwaegen
Prof. Kristien Smedts
Prof. Monique Snoeck
Prof. Frederik Spieksma
Prof. Frans Spinnewyn
Prof. Jo Swinnen
Prof. Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Prof. Patrick Van Cayseele
Prof. Linda Van de Gucht
Prof. Alexandra Van den Abbeele
Prof. Gustaaf Van Herck
Prof. Cynthia Van Hulle
Prof. Luc Van Liedekerke
Prof. Bart Van Looy
Prof. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse
Prof. Paul Van Rompuy
Prof. Nico Vandaele
Prof. Martina Vandebroek
Prof. Pierre Vanden Abeele
Prof. Hylke Vandenbussche
Prof. Heidi Vander Bauwhede
Prof. Toon Vandevelde
Prof. Steven Vanduffel
Prof. Jan Vanthienen
Prof. Lambert Vanthienen
Prof. Frank Verboven
Prof. Paul Verdin
Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers
Prof. Stijn Viaene
Prof. Luk Warlop
Prof. Marleen Willekens
Prof. Gerald Willmann
Prof. Gunther Wuyts
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Alba
Prof. Dr. César Alonso-Borrego
Dr. Begoña Álvarez García
Prof. Dr. Carlos Álvarez Nogal
Prof. Dr. Stefano Battilossi
Prof. Dr. Antonio Cabrales
Prof. Dr. Juan Carmona Pidal
Prof. Dr. Raquel Carrasco
Prof. Dr. Marco Celentani
Prof. Dr. Luis Corchón
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Delgado
Prof. Dr. Klaus Desmet
Prof. Dr. Antonia Díaz
Prof. Dr. Javier Díaz-Giménez
Prof. Dr. Juan José Dolado
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Escribano
Prof. Dr. Antoni Espasa Terrades
Prof. Dr. Susana Esteban
Dr. Eduardo Giménez Fernández
Prof. Dr. José Luis Ferreira
Prof. Dr. Juan Huitzilihuitl Flores Zendejas
Prof. Dr. Pedro Fraile Balbín
Prof. Dr. Mª Ángeles de Frutos
Prof. Dr. Philippe Gagnepain
Prof. Dr. Jesús Gonzalo
Prof. Dr. Nezih Guner
Prof. Dr. Ángel Hernando
Prof. Dr. Stefan Houpt
Prof. Dr. Jordi Jaumandreu
Prof. Dr. Belén Jerez
Prof. Dr. Praveen Kujal
Prof. Dr. Félix Lobo
Prof. Dr. Matilde P. Machado
Prof. Dr. Francisco Marhuenda
Prof. Dr. Pedro Marín
Prof. Dr. Aurelia Modrego
Dr. Ana Montes Alonso
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mora
Prof. Dr. Diego Moreno
Prof. Dr. Esteban A. Nicolini
Prof. Dr. Carmelo Núñez
Prof. Dr. Ignacio Ortuño
Dr. Noemi Padrón Fumero
Prof. Dr. Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Luis Antonio Puch González
Prof. Dr. Juan P. Rincón
Dr. Fidel Castro Rodríguez
Prof. Dr. Luis Rodríguez Romero
Prof. Dr. Antonio Romero-Medina
Prof. Dr. Joan R. Rosés
Prof.Dr. Javier Ruiz-Castillo
Prof. Dr. Esther Ruiz Ortega
Prof. Dr. Carlos San Juan
Prof. Dr. Mª Jesús San Segundo
Prof. Dr. James Simpson
Prof. Dr. Francesco de Sinopoli
Prof. Dr. Georges Siotis
Prof. Dr. Antonio Tena Junguito
Prof. Dr. Carlos Velasco
Dr. Bernarda Zamora Talaya
Sciences Po
Christophe Blot
Marion Cochard
Prof. Elie Cohen
Gérard Cornilleau
Jérôme Creel
Prof. Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Prof. Jean-Luc Gaffard
Sarah Guillou
Eric Heyer
Eloi Laurent
Sabine Le Bayon
Prof. Jacques Le Cacheux
Matthieu Lemoine
Sandrine Levasseur
Catherine Mathieu
Prof. Patrick Messerlin
Paola Monperrus-Veroni
Lionel Nesta
Hervé Peleraux
Hélène Perivier
Mathieu Plane
Frédéric Reynes
Christine Rifflart
Evens Salies
Francesco Saraceno
Stefano Schiavo
Prof. Jérôme Sgard
Henri Sterdyniak
Xavier Timbeau
Vincent Touze
Prof. Etienne Wasmer
Prof. Philippe Weil
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor Wiji Arulampalam
Dr Pablo Beker
Dr Gianna Boero
Professor Stephen Broadberry
Dr Andres Carvajal
Professor Mike Clements
Professor Valentina Corradi
Dr Amrita Dhillon
Professor Bhaskar Dutta
Professor Sayantan Ghosal
Professor Peter Hammond
Professor Mark Harrison
Professor Dennis Leech
Professor Ben Lockwood
Dr Anandi Mani
Professor Marcus Miller
Dr Sushama Murty
Professor Robin Naylor
Professor Andrew Oswald
Professor Herakles Polemarchakis
Dr Kimberley Scharf
Dr Daniel Sgroi
Professor Margaret Slade
Dr Jennifer C Smith
Dr Jeremy Smith
Professor Ian Walker
Professor Michael Waterson
Dr Lei Zhang
Dr. Teresa Bago d Uva
Prof. Dr. H. Barkema
Dr. L.J.H. Bettendorf
Prof. Dr Bleichrodt
Prof. Dr.Ing. F van den Bosch,
Prof. Dr.Ir. G.H. van Bruggen
Prof. Dr.Ir. R. Dekker
Prof. Dr.Ir. B.G.C. Dellaert,
Prof. Dr. D.J.C. van Dijk,
Prof.Dr. H.K. van Dijk,
Dr. E. Dijkgraaf,
Dr. B.C.D. Donkers
Prof.Dr. E.K.A. van Doorslaer
Dr. R.A.J. Dur
Dr. M. Fleischmann
Dr. D. Fok
Prof. Dr. Ph. H.B.F. Franses
Dr. P.P.M.A.R. Heugens
Prof. Dr. M.C.W. Janssen
Prof. Dr. R. de Koster
Prof. Dr. L.G. Kroon
Dr. E.A. van der Laan
Prof. Dr. C. van Marrewijk
Prof. Dr. R.A. de Mooij
Dr. T.G.M. van Ourti
Prof. Dr. S. van Osselaer,
Dr. R. Paap
Dr. H.P.G. Pennings
Prof. Dr. G.T. Post
Mr. Dr. P.A. van Reeven
Prof. Dr.Ir. A. Smidts
Prof. Dr. J. Spronk
Prof. Dr. O.H. Swank
Prof. Dr. A.R. Thurik
Prof. Dr. S.L. van de Velde
Prof. Dr. M.Verbeek
Prof. Dr. W.Verbeke
Dr. B.Visser
Prof. Dr. H.W. Volberda
Prof. Dr. C.G. de Vries
Prof.Dr. A.P.M. Wagelmans
Prof. Dr.Ir. Wierenga, B.
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Jean-Pierre Amigues
Emmanuelle Auriol
Prof. Jean-Paul Azam
Prof. Bernard Belloc
Fabian Bergès
Bruno Biais
Christophe Bisière
Prof. Christian Bontemps
Philippe Bontems
Prof. Marie-Françoise Calmette
Prof. Catherine Casamatta
Assist. Prof. Catherine Cazals
Fabrice Collard
Prof. Claude Crampes
Prof. Helmuth Cremer
Jacques Crémer
Philippe de Donder
Assoc. Prof. Etienne de Villemeur
Prof. Jean-Paul Décamps
Prof. Fany Declerck
Assoc. Prof. Roberta Dessi
Pierre Dubois
Frédérique Fève
Prof. Patrick Fève
Prof. Jean-Pierre Florens
Guido Friebel
Prof. Farid Gasmi
Christian Gollier
Prof. André Grimaud
Assist. Prof. Yolande Hiriart
Marc Ivaldi
Bruno Jullien
Prof. Norbert Ladoux
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Prof. Michel Le Breton
Assoc. Prof. Thomas-Olivier Leautier
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
Prof. Thierry Magnac
Thomas Mariotti
David Martimort
Christine Maurel
Michel Moreaux
Javier Ortega
Catherine Portier
Prof. Franck Portier
Prof. Sébastien Pouget
Vincent Réquillart
Prof. Patrick Rey
Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet
Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul
François Salanié
Prof. Wilfried Sand-Zantman
Paul Seabright
Michel Simioni
Alban Thomas
Prof. Jean Tirole
Nicolas Treich
Stéphane Villeneuve
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Baseline User questionnaire (English version)
ANNEX 3
NEEO Technical Guidelines
ANNEX 4
NEEO flyer
ANNEX 5
NEEO leaflet
ANNEX 6
NEEO Poster
ANNEX 7
NEEO powerpoint presentation
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