Hello and Happy New Year! RePEc had a very successful year 2004. A few numbers: about 90000 new items (among them 24000 papers and 66000 articles); about 2350 new registered authors (+62%!); doubling of items with references; tripling of cited items; 82 new participating archives; Also, all services improved there functionalities, among them: RePEc Author Service all redone and much easier for authors and admins; redo of EconPapers, with much improved search engines; new functionalities at IDEAS, like bibliographic records; new NEP engine, for the moment mostly visible to editors; new tools for series maintainers, like the online syntax checker; As for December 2004, we had 330,451 file downloads and 1,378,771 abstract views. This brings the year total to 3,717,991 and 16,023,686, but more important brings the totals since we started counting beans to over 10 million and 60 million! Other thresholds passed over the month: 200000 online items 150000 articles 140000 items with abstracts 60000 items with JEL codes 30000 papers with references 1500 software components 6000 registered authors 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