Hello all! The big news is that RePEc is 10 years old! On 12 May 1997, Thomas Krichel (then at the University of Surrey, now at Long Island University) lead a meeting with Thomas Place and Corry Stuyts (University of Tilburg), Sune Karlsson (then at the Stockholm School of Economics, now at Orebro University) and Jose Manuel Barrueco Cruz (University of Valencia) as they laid down the structure and semantics of RePEc. Then, on 27 May, the Financial Markets Group at LSE opened the first participating RePEc archive, followed by the University of Quebec at Montreal, DEGREE (Netherlands), the Stockholm School of Economics and Boston College. RePEc has made tremendous strides since, becoming now the standard online tool for bibliographic searches in Economics and an example of efficiency in library science. More narrowly, let's see what RePEc established within the last month: 593,712 file downloads and 2,165,055 abstract views, as well as surpassing the following numbers: 75000000 cumulated paper abstract views 5000000 cumulated downloads through EconPapers 480000 listed items 250000 abstracts 240000 paper announcements thorugh NEP 100000 JEL coded items 13000 registered authors 1500 online chapters 600 journals 400 NEP-ALL reports 10 years RePEc 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