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Link to Scholarly Kitchen



See Phil Davis's piece on usage statistics in The Scholarly 
Kitchen.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/10/27/article-download-gaming/

Davis gets at the "research spam" problem, which is bound to 
grow.  Some people believe that research spam is an aspect of OA 
publishing, but Davis makes it clear that it can be found 
everywhere--and that it can be actively manipulated to drive up 
usage statistics.

Joe Esposito