Introduction
LETS, Time Banks, Tauschringe, Tianguis Tlaloc as well as other forms of community currencies gained a lot of public attention over recent years. The development of these systems in different parts of the world has been accompanied by theoretical and empirical work of social scientist who analysed these social innovations from a variety of different angles. This bibliography is a contribution to the academic infrastructure of community currency research. It is specifically designed for those pursuing an academic interest in this field. The major part of this project is the databank: RefShare offers different options to search this collection - by author, by descriptors, or via a detailed search that also provides the possibility for a full text query. Beside "core literature" the collection comprises separate files with unpublished (but available) works and publications where the issue "community currencies" have just been broached ("fringe"). The "Full view" (instead of "Standard view") provides additional information about a source. This pull down menu provides also a list with publications about "empirical studies" of specific community currencies and a list with sources in non-western languages. Refshare offers a large array of possibilities to export files. For details about this software please refer to the "Help" functions of this programme; the tutorial presentation takes about ten minutes. In exceptional cases documents (summaries or, if otherwise difficult to obtain, even complete reference texts) may be attached.
A small selection of background literature can be found, separately, on this website. These are sources which do not deal with community currencies, but are important for authors in this field. For further details please refer to the "principles" section of this site. The link section is a gate to other facilities in the area of community currency research. It also provides access to scholarly as well as "grey" literature, for instance, small, non-academic journals. This is not a general linklist about community currencies. The major objective of this project is to present a comprehensive collection irrespective of the language or the theoretical background of author(s). At this early stage the editor has to admit that it is still a long road towards achievement of this objective. Users of the bibliography are invited to make contributions – information in respect of sources that might be included as well as comments about the existing structure are welcome.
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Rolf F. H. Schroeder, mail(at)cc-literature.de