NEW IN THIS VERSION

New resources in this issue are denoted with a + in the first column of the title or mailing list, while significant changes to resources mentioned previously are denoted with a * in the title of that resource and this sort of type denotes the actual changes in that section (for mailing lists, sometimes the change only involves a change in the type of software used).

Major new resources in this issue include two entirely new sections: a directory to business schools, and another for colleges and universites. In addition, several sections have been reorganized, expanded, or made more specific: notification services for working papers and publications, journals, electronic newspapers, and gopher and web sites.

Interesting new data includes the well-known Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID). The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago offers a substantial body of daily time series (and other data). It is also a useful site for summary macro series. Very useful regional data can be found at the University of Virginia's Regional Economic Information System, and useful international data (the Penn World Tables) in a particularly useful form from the EPAS Computing Facility at the University of Toronto (Penn World Table data already existed on the net). These last two sites mark an important event: the first easy retrieval of data using a web interface. Hopefully, it is the hallmark of things to come.

For the first time, this issue also lists journals that are accessible over the Internet: the Student Economic Review, the Journal of Economics and Finance, and Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. Hopefully, this is also the start of things to come.

Finally, there are several noteworthy services that don't fit into any particular category: H.M. Treasury, the Kiwi Club Web Server (with extensive financial links), Job Openings for Economists in Europe, and the Economist Jokes Page.

In the organization of this guide, there is a new "shortcut" section that simply lists the name of every resource, which is clickable. Every entry is on this one page, which simplifies navigation if you know the name of the site you want.

Finally, the html version of this guide at Washington Univesity at St. Louis is searchable.