Hello, The new feature of the month has to do with rankings: There are now rankings of institutions and authors by field. Also, there have been procedural changes in the rankings within region. See the discussion of these items on the blog at http://blog.repec.org/. We continue with fast paced additions of material. This year alone, over 100,000 items have been added to the bibliographical database. Accordingly, the RePEc web services are more popular than ever, establishing new traffic records: 697,596 file downloads and 2,516,310 abstract views within a month. This leads us to the thresholds we have passed this month: 2,500,000 abstract views in a single month 550,000 items listed 500,000 downloaded software components 325,000 articles listed 275,000 items with abstracts 225,000 papers listed 125,000 items with references 100,000 papers with references 90,000 articles with citations 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