Hello all, the big news in May is that we have now over 10000 authors registered with RePEc. To put this in perspective, the AEA has 18000 members, not all of them authors. But not all authors are members of the AEA. Over 40% of all works listed on RePEc have now been claimed by a registered author, and close to two thirds of the top 1000 authors in the profession are registered, see http://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html. In other regular news, we had 516,651 file downloads and 2,245,295 abstract views over the month. As for the milestones passed during the last month, here they are: 10000000 downloads through IDEAS 375000 items listed 275000 online items listed 180000 papers listed 175000 items claimed by registered authors 100000 cited items 60000 papers with references 11000 NEP reports 10000 authors registered 75000 items with references 70000 items with references 600 participating archives 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@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html