"An internal evaluation of the African Journals Online (AJOL) project following the first three years of the full programme, aimed at discovering the overall impact of AJOL and how the service might be improved. The main objectives of the evaluation were to find out (i) whether the results of research published in African journals were becoming more widely known and used, and, (ii) whether the journals had benefited, either through increased income from subscriptions or other ways from exposure in AJOL." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1973)