EconStor in February 2013 hits milestone of 50.000 full text documents

We are happy to announce that we have reached the milestone of 50.000 full text documents by March 6^th, 2013. This means that our content has doubled in the last two years. See also our press release.

In February we have added the following e-journals, research paper and book series to EconStor:

• RWI Projektberichte, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
• Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln
• International Transport Forum Discussion Papers, International Transport Forum (ITF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers, International Transport Forum (ITF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• German Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR) – Das Open Access E-Journal für Versicherungswissenschaften und Risikomanagement, Seminar für ABWL, Risikomanagement und Versicherungslehre, Universität Köln
• Schumpeter Discussion Papers, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• IW policy papers, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
• Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Bücher, Rainer Hampp Verlag
• Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series, Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS)

Beyond that download numbers have reached a new record as well in Febuary. We have counted a total number of 193.260 downloads. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.)    von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1145 downloads)

2.)    Dilger, Alexander: „Besonderheiten der Bewerbung um Promotionsstellen und -gelegenheiten“ (773)

3.)    Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (698)

4.)    Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Haucap, Justus: „Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the internet driving competition or market monopolization?“ (579)

5.)    Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (575)