Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in May 2008, The RePEc blog, June 4, 2008.
Traffic on RePEc services continues to be high, establishing a record for the third month in a row for abstracts. But this streak is expected to come to an end, as summer traffic is typically lower. All in all, we counted 693,457 file downloads and 2,836,840 abstract views.
During the month of May, the following institutions joined RePEc with new archives: University of Hamburg, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, CIDE, University College Dublin, Nanyang Technological University, Romanian Journal of Regional Science, University of Central Missouri, University of Luxembourg, Queensland University of Technology.
In terms of thresholds passed, you should notice a few very significant ones:
90,000,000 cumulative abstract views for working papers
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
