... on the relevance of this study, many studies on the management and cost of e-resources, usage evaluation of e-resources and usage statistics have been reviewed. Managing the provision and use of electronic information resources has become necessary because of the high investments made toward its provision...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a comprehensive review of the recent published literature on the importance of the usage statistics of e‐resources subscribed to by the academic libraries. Findings The findings show that the usage statistics help in studying and evaluating the users...

...Joachim Schöpfel; Claire Leduc Purpose This paper is aimed primarily at academic library managers and acquisition librarians. By analogy to Pareto studying the relationship between clients and turnover, the paper will study subscriptions to e‐journals and usage statistics. The aim is to evaluate...