EconStor is a disciplinary repository for Economics and Business Studies which offers research literature in Open Access and makes it findable in various portals and search engines.

[1] The majority of the publications originates from German institutions in economic research and is provided in accordance with usage agreements.

EconStor maintains a list of influential journals publishing literature in economics.

The most important professional association for economists in Germany, the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), has been using EconStor since 2010 to publish conference papers submitted for its Annual Meeting online.

EconStor counts among the largest repositories in its discipline and in Germany with more than 212,000 full-texts.