As usual, we have been collecting per country usage statistics for the year 2008 in order to monitor how much usage the overall eIFL network makes of the many electronic resources negotiated by eIFL with academic publishers. These statistics are also a highly useful tool to find out the degree of participation within every national consortium and resulting trends. This is a service that adds value to the eIFL Negotiations program and helps to work out a program of targeted promotion.

Statistics for usage of EBSCO, Britannica Online, Emerald Publishing, Gale, Institute of Physics (IoP), Morgan and Claypool, Oxford Content Online, Oxford Journals, Project Muse, Sage and Wiley are already available in the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website, under “Statistics” section. Usage data for the remaining publishers are being collected and their availability will be communicated to consortia members in the next few weeks.