The Student Economic Review is kept in two places on the Web:
http://www.bess.tcd.ie/ser.htmland
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/econrev/ser.html
If you cannot access one, then try the other.
To our knowledge, the Student Economic Review is the only economics journal in the world produced entirely by students. Every year, the Review committee is chosen from the third-year undergraduates by the Economics Department. The essays reproduced in the Review have usually been recommended by a lecturer in the Dept. of Economics who marked it as a submission for course assesment. Post-graduate students often give us summaries of the research they have done for their theses. However, some independent souls do their own research on whatever esoteric topic interests them.
The Review has always been accessible to all students to read and write for , and not choked with pages of unnecessarily complex material. The 1995 Review has something of interest to everybody regardless of their specialisation.
Production of the paper version of the Review is supervised by the Head of Production with the assistance of the Economics Department and the Dublin University Publications Committe, who generously allow us to use their equipment.
Volume 8 of the Student Economic Review was the first volume which is also available on the World Wide Web. This makes the Student Economic Review not only the world's first paper undergraduate economics journal, but also, along with the Cyberchronicle of Political Economy (COPE) one of the world's first two electronic economics journals. Here are some of the comments we have received about the Review. You may also like to have a look at an extract from the speech made by President Mary Robinson to the Oireachteas this February.
The articles are available in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which can be read by most browsers. To read a particular essay, just click on the title in the Table of Contents, which you access through the homepage of each year's volume by clicking above.
The conversion this year was done with a beta version of Internet Assistant for Word, supplied by Microsoft . Graphics and equations were converted from Microsoft Word 6 by cutting and pasting into Paintbrush, saving as a .bmp file and then using LVIEW to convert to .gif format. All these packages are available by Anonymous FTP from www.bess.tcd.ie in the anonftp/dpnolan directory. The essays were originally in RTF format as well as HTML, but we decided to withdraw the RTF because we can now show the Review in all its glory in HTML with a few .gifs thrown in, as well as not wanting to make plagarism too easy for students here at Department of Economics,Trinity College Dublin
The Student Economic Review also has its own e-mail address, which is econrev@vax1.tcd.ie You are welcome to mail any comments or suggestions you may have to us.
The committee of the Student Economic Review would like to express their gratitude and appreciation to Dr Paddy Waldron , for his invaluble help and advice on the WWW conversion and general production of the Student Economic Review.