Hello all! Traffic has been relatively calm this month, with 245,164 file downloads and 896,169 abstract views. This indexed data has shown quite a bit of growth, though, as the following thresholds reached during the month show: 275000 items listed 180000 online items 125000 abstracts 100000 online articles 80000 online working papers 80000 working papers with abstracts 80000 items claimed by registered authors 50000 working papers with JEL codes 1250 working paper series 8 new archives Also, RePEc services have added new features: EconPapers (a couple of months ago) and IDEAS have implemented the recognition of "similar items", that is works that appear in the database in various versions. They are now crosslinked. In the case of EconPapers, this came with a major overhaul of the search facility. IDEAS allows now to import bibliographic information in various formats. 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