Sebastian Rahtz wrote --

>  > But is it as useful to the research physicists?  (I have no idea.)
> if their stuff gets in there, yes; Science Direct is as good or better
> than xxx, isnt it?

Ask a physicist (there's enough of them around the TeX world:-).

And remind me how I access Science Direct so that I can check it out.

>
>  > In what units: are Elsevier prepared to reveal their data on such things?
>
> well, we publish (say) 1200 journals, at (say) an average of 50
> articles a year, so say 6000 articles a year? 10000? is that a lot?

Not necessarily, if it is over a wide area of science.

This is getting a bit off subject for this list (my fault): althogh I
would recommend people to look at eg xxx.lanl.gov to see "TeX in Action".


chris