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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