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Hi, I am researching the impact of e-journals on ILL's in health libraries. To put the search strategy date range into context I have used statistics for number of e-journals available through 1990's (Okerson 2000), percentage of population owning a PC and practical download speeds for 1990's to 2008 (ONS). The last part I think is the availability to the scientific community of searchable aggregate databases such as the Ovid Gateway as it was, I have found out that Ovid launched its web-based version in 1996 (Peter Jasco 1996) but I remember using Ovid on CD-Rom in 1999. I can't find anything that gives me a timeline as such, but when would you say the internet took over from CD-Rom for resources such as Ovid, and so making them more accessible to the users? Any pointers to papers or your own experiences would be helpful. Many thanks. Kind regards Beverley Walsh ACLIP Assistant Librarian West Suffolk Hospital We care because you care Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/wshlibrary<http://www.twitter.com/wshlibrary>