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Policy

WebEc lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists and is at least in part freely available on the Internet.
Advertisement is not allowed on the servers where WebEc is located.
WebEc does not list firms, if they don't offer something of special interest to economists. For example, WebEc does not list companies selling cigarettes, but if you have data about the cigarette sales, send a note to WebEc. The commercial indices are found elsewhere.
The use of WebEc is free of charge ... but the copyright of WebEc remains with the maker even though ... he is not responsible about the possible damages you or anybody else will suffer because of using the Internet, including WebEc. WebEc and the rest of the author's personal pages are provided as is without any express or implied warranty. WebEc is a volunteer personal hobby of the author who provides this service solely as a convenience to other Web users and himself looking for economics resources and information. These pages have no official relationship to and do not represent the employers of the author.
The more you let me know about services that should be included in WebEc or that are outdated, misplaced or contain any kind of errors, the better WebEc will be for you and other users. Many people have already been supporting WebEc in various ways.

Navigating

It might be just best to click around and see what way of using WebEc is the best for you, but you can read on if you wish (it takes more time to read than to learn-by-clicking; I already wasted my time in writing this!)

The WebEc categories are a modified version of the JEL categories
There are three main pages in WebEc nowadays:
1. Framed page that contains a main page #1 and an access to the main categories.
2. Index page without frames that contains all the categories found in WebEc. This is supposed to be used without frames. On the page is a shortcut menu that includes all the main categories found in WebEc. The text in the menu points to the corresponding sub-page: one and the last step deeper in the hierarchy. The main page continues with the deeper level categories; longer and more detailed index. On the non-framed main page's short cut menu the image/mark $\/$ points to the long index's entries on the same page.
Every framed category has an internal two columns menu, on the left, where the links point to the main categories and current category's headings.
Choosing the and starting from any contents page will take you through WebEc's categories.
From the top of each contents page you can get to the (WebEc) about.
On contents pages the 's before a heading will take you to the top of the page. (Ctrl-Home does the trick in many Windows browsers.)
The search engines will show you another view of WebEc's contents.

Updating

WebEc's public versions will be released in January, April and August. Please note that I do not take in any more entries to WebEc. It's better to contact Bill instead. WebEc's release dates have been:

September	1	1995	(Version 1.0)
November	15	1995	(Version 1.5)
January	2	1996	(Version 2.1)
April	10	1996	(Version 2.2)
July	2	1996	(Version 2.3)
October	1	1996	(Version 2.4)
January	17	1997	(Version 3.1)
April	11	1997	(Version 3.2)
July	7	1997	(Version 3.3)
October	1	1997	(Version 3.4)
January	13	1998	(Version 4.1)
April	3	1998	(Version 4.2)
July	1	1998	(Version 4.3)
October	28	1998	(Version 4.4)
January	27	1999	(Version 5.1)
April	1	1999	(Version 5.2)
August	16	1999	(Version 5.3)
January	3	2000	(Version 6.1)
April	3	2000	(Version 6.2)
August	21	2000	(Version 6.3)
January	2	2001	(Version 7.1)
April	30	2001	(Version 7.2)
October	22	2001	(Version 7.3)
January	22	2002	(Version 8.1)
April	30	2002	(Version 8.2)
August	30	2002	(Version 8.3)
January	2	2003	(Version 9.1)
April	23	2003	(Version 9.2)
August	4	2004	(Version 9.3)
January	1	2004	(Version 10.1)
April	12	2004	(Version 10.2)
September	2	2004	(Version 10.3)
December	23	2004	(Version 11.1)
April	4	2005	(Version 11.2)
August	2	2005	(Version 11.3)
December	28	2005	(Version 12.1)
April	18	2006	(Version 12.2)
August	30	2006	(Version 12.3)
Version 13.1 was be released in January, 2007. No more new versions coming ...

NOTE: I check the links during every revision, but I do not include any new links. There has been over 1400 URLs in WebEc and some of them might be from 1993. I believe WebEc will exist until there are no working links or no users.

Looks

WebEc should look OK with most of the web browsers? I try to present everything so that the same information is available to everybody, regardless of the browser they use. Send mail if you have any problems in using WebEc.

I could use some help or a kick in the ... or a pat on the head from time to time ... here's the story so far.

Center for Innovative Education,
Helsinki School of Economics,
Finland

Department of Economics,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Helsinki,
Finland