E-Resource Usage Statistics of The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University: with Special Reference to INFISTATS M. Tamizhchelvan Deputy Librarian The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University,Gandhigram – 624 302 tamizhchelvan@gmail.com Muthuraj Anbalagan Assistant Librarian The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University,Gandhigram – 624 302 muthurajmphilbdu@yahoo.com Abstract The study of usage of e-resources is available through e-ShodhShiindu (eSS) Consortium at the url https://infistat.inflibnet.ac.in/ for every institute members provided username and password to access them. The objective is to find trends in usage of e- resources and the high and low level of use. To study the usage trends a usage statistics of nine full-text databases during 2012-2019. The study reveals that usage of e-resources is increasing from 2012 to 2016 and decrease afterwards. To increase the usage of e- resources, the remote access facilities extended to faculty members and research scholars from 2019 onwards. Users from science faculty members and researchers in their field are more active in using e- databases when compare to arts. Subject specific databases are highly used than multi-subject databases. This usage study is useful for Library professionals for finding important e-journals and databases for proper implementation of funds Keywords InfiStats, INFLIBNET, Usage of E-resources, eSS Consortia, The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University Electronic access The journal is available at www.jalis.in Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science ISSN: 2277-2219 Vol. 9. No.1. 2020. pp. 22-30. Introduction It is necessary to evaluate the use of every resources spent by the institute or through consortia. It needs evaluation of the resources by counting the views or counting downloaded resources. Based on the effective use of the resources, it may be continued to subscribe for next year and so on. For this purpose, it needs a system to gather all these views and downloads and gets the usage report. So the INFLIBNET has developed system for this purpose is called InfiStats, Usage Statistics Portal for e- Resources. Through this system, an individual institute can get the usage data on different categories like journals wise, publishers wise, chronological wise, etc. To access the InfiStats, the member institutions can login to this portal for knowing the usage of their respective e-resources. https://infistat.inflibnet.ac.in/ (1) for every institute members provided username and password to access them. InfiStats InfiStats (2) is a portal developed by the INFLIBNET Centre for the purpose monitoring the usage statistics of various e-resources accessed to the member institute. Technically it used the "Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)" and the Protocol (ANSI/NISO Standard No. Z39.93-2007). It harvests the usage data automatically from different Web servers. It updates a database on InfiStats for the purposes of analyzing the use of e-resources. The InfiStats interface provides title level COUNTER reports to member institute. The member institutions can also login to this portal for monitoring the usage of their respective e-resources. Fig.1. InfiStats portal home page Benefits for Member Institutions The INFLIBNET centre has recommended the following benefits and features for using this InfiStats software.