Hello all, RePEc is emerging from the Summer vacation with various novelties in planning. Two are already operational: 1) IDEAS and EconPapers offer now plug-ins for various browsers to allow searches directly from browser tool bars or menus. See http://ideas.repec.org/plug-in.html and http://econpapers.repec.org/FAQ.htm#tools 2) Rankings continue to expand and know include one for female economists, see http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.women.html More to come in the following months In terms of traffic, 381,792 file downloads and 1,522,408 abstract views over the month. It reawakens slowly after the Summer lull. And fiunally, the following thresholds were passed: 4000000 downloads through EconPapers 300000 items online 190000 items claimed in author profiles 170000 online articles 80000 items with references 75000 article abstracts 75000 JEL classified papers 12000 NEP reports 1600 working paper series 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