Hello all! the big news this month is that the 400th archive joined RePEc. Other developments where that the instructions for opening an archive have been completely rewritten, see http://ideas.repec.org/stepbystep.html. In terms of statistics, there have been 279,884 file downloads and 1,083,925 abstract views in September 2004. And the traditional list of benchmarks reached during the month: 190000 online items 130000 abstracts 90000 items claimed by registered authors 85000 online working papers 7500 NEP reports 400 RePEc archives 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