NBER Help: Working Papers

Journalists and other Media members

Free downloads of NBER Working Papers

Staff of newspapers and magazines in any part of the world may download the full text of all available working papers from our web site after registering their network with us. Free-lance journalists writing on economics and finance topics are also encouraged to register. We exclude economic and finance professionals with part-time journalistic sidelines from the free list. We also exclude investment advisory services and financial newsletters.

To register, email the following information to wwp@nber.org:

The name of the publication(s) that employs you.
The domain name for your institution. Typically, this is the last portion of your email address, such as 'tribune.com'.
The network number for your publication offices. This is not required for sites that implement reverse name look-up, but only about one half of sites do that. Your network administrator is the only source for this number. Note that the network number is not the ``network mask'', which is a number beginning with 255.

Testing free download authorization

An easy test is to browse our test document at http://papers.nber.org/papers/w0000. If you are in an authorized domain you should see "This paper is available in PDF (2 K) or HTML(0 K) format." If the system does not recognize you, you will see a link called "add this paper to your order basket," in which case we can offer you further authorization help.

Journalists who access the Web offsite

If you:

access the Internet via a commercial ISP (such as AOL) which shares host names and IP addresses with other institutions
access the Internet via an ISP which assigns you a new IP address each time you connect
need access while away from your organization's network

We also offer individual logins that allow you to access Working Papers from any computer.

WORKING PAPERS TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Questions and comments
about our web site are always welcome.