RePEc as an international network of online publications archives in economics. Its history can be traced back to 1993. By March 1999 it consists of over 70 archives holding over 13,000 downloadable papers and over 50,000 descriptions of offline papers from close to 1,000 series, as well as data about over 4,000 academic Economics department and research institutes. It includes several data types (papers, published articles, software, personal and institutional data). Its long-run aim is a relational database that covers all aspects of academic economics.

Founded in 1997, RuPEc is the oldest Russian service that contributes to RePEc and implements RePEc services. The RuPEc archive has a separate Russian language section that contains document descriptions in Russian. Russian providers of own electronic archives can include their collections into both sections of RuPEc database (English and/or Russian) using general RePEc rules. RuPEc includes full set of RePEc bibliographical data, links to all main RePEc services.

The Russian team works on creation of convenient end-user web interface for visualization of a contents of the input documents flow. This service will also offer new web tools for personalization of the web portal contents according interests profile of end-user.

By broad international scale, wide spectrum of input documents, and filtration tools the RePEc database and RuPEc web service hopes to become a leader in providing economics community with current awareness data.