1 in 5 million

Earlier today, I’ve got an email from UCL Library Services, telling me that our research publications repository (UCL Discovery) has “recently passed the exciting milestone of 5 million downloads”.

As it happens, the 5 million-th download was our paper on football results predictions \(-\) I’ve already mentioned it in a few posts, for example here, here and here).

The best part of the story is that there is a “small prize” that I will be given at a forthcoming Library Conference to “mark this achievement” \(-\) the achievement being having won the lottery, really…

As my friend Virgilio said, who knows what my colleagues that do “more serious stuff” will think of that…