[RePEc-announce] RePEc in December 2005

[Christian Zimmermann]

Happy New Year to everyone!

December was seasonally calm, yet a very good month. The year ended on a 
sad note, as EconWPA closed down and will not be able to accept any new 
submissions. We all thank Robert Parks for an impressive job, and we hope 
that a new volunteer will be able to pick up where he had to leave.

With 452,903 file downloads and 1,566,993 abstract views in December, we 
concluded a record year, which topped 5 million downloads and 18 million 
abstract views. During this year, 256 series and journals were added, 
contributing to 24622 new papers, 30340 new articles, 601 new book 
chapters, 163 new books, and the number of software components went down 
180. 2513 new authors registers, and 1038 new institution listings were 
added. NEP added 14 new reports series and issued 2214 reports.

I think these are all impressive numbers, and 2006 looks very promising 
again!

Now on to the thresholds reached during the last month:

15000000 downloads since bean counting started
5000000  downloads within a year
175000   abstracts
150000   paper announcements through NEP
150000   items in author profiles
110000   online working papers
110000   working paper abstracts
75000    JEL coded items
10000    NEP reports
1000     book chapters listed
600      books listed
500      online books


Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
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