WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE

• This guide can be found in a number of places. They include:
• FTP: Via anonymous ftp, connect to rtfm.mit.edu, change to the /pub/usenet/sci.econ.research directory, and retrieve the file econ-resources-faq. It also has the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.econ.research/econ-resources-faq.

• GOPHER: Two main gophers are the Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University and at the Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington University at St. Louis (at this site, one can also read the guide by sections and it can be searched). These are their addresses in several formats:

• Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
  • URL: gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
  • direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics
  • indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics
  • bookmark: Type=1 Name=Economics (SHSU Network Access Initiative Project) Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS] Host=Niord.SHSU.edu Port=70

• Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington University at St. Louis:
  • URL: gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/1/
  • direct: econwpa.wustl.edu
  • indirect: USA/Missouri/Washington University - St. Louis/ Washington University in St. Louis Departmental Gopher Servers / Economics Department/Economics Working Paper Archive
  • bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: econwpa.wustl.edu Host=econwpa.wustl.edu Port=70

• HTML (the first site contains a searchable index for the entire guide)
  • http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Missouri)
  • http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Finland)
  • http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Michigan)
  • http://riskweb.bus.utexas.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Texas)
  • http://www.inform.umd.edu/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/EconomicsResources/ EconData/.www/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Maryland)
  • http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Goffe/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (U.K.)
  • http://www.wabash.edu/pages/depart/economic/econFAQ/econFAQ.html (Illinois)
  • http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/othergophers/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Netherlands)

• EMAIL: Write SENDME ECONOMICS.INTERNET-RESOURCES in the body of an email message sent to FILESERV@SHSU.edu, or write to econ-wp@econwpa.wustl.edu with GET ECON.FAQ in the subject line.

• Finally, I'd be happy to send it out via email to all who request it. However, I don't maintain a mailing list for its distribution; rather, I encourage folks to obtain a copy from one of the economics sites mentioned above. You'll find a huge amount of other material of interest there.