Given the growing popularity of Bluesky among economists, several features have been added on RePEc sites. The RePEc Author Service now allows authors to add their Bluesky handle to their social media contacts. IDEAS uses that information to create listings of authors on Bluesky by field and country. IDEAS also makes it possible to post any of its pages to Bluesky on the click of a button. This matches what was available for other social media.
In other news, RePEc welcomed one new publication data provider, the Harvard Growth Lab. We counted 417,593 file downloads and 1,659,897 abstract views on EconPapers, IDEAS and NEP. And we reached the following milestone:
250,000 book chapters indexed