1. The eight universities belonging to the CBUC are the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Technical University of Catalonia, the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Girona, the University of Lleida, the Rovira i Virgili University and the Open University of Catalonia. The study also included figures for two associate universities of the Consortium: the Jaume I University and the University of Vic.
2. Cristóbal Urbano, Lluís Anglada, Àngel Borrego, Carme Cantos, Antoni Cosculluela and Núria Comellas, “The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000–2003),” D-Lib Magazine 10 (June 2004). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/anglada/06anglada.html (accessed February 27, 2006).
3. Carol Tenopir, Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003). Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120/pub120.pdf (accessed February 27, 2006).
4. “The Use and Users of Scholarly E-journals: A Review of Log Analysis Studies”;Jamali;Aslib Proceedings,2005
5. Basically, a Big Deal is a package purchase in which a consortium of libraries purchases all of a publisher's journal titles in digital form for all members of the consortium.