Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world. Brazil is the largest Portuguese speaking population in the world and has the largest ETD collection written in this language. This article analyzes international accesses to PUC-Rio’s ETD collection from June 2004 to April 2010. It is specially concerned with accesses from both Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries. Data from system access logs are examined and preliminary results are presented. This work shows the importance of language in the numbers of accesses in general. Future works will focus this relation with specific areas of knowledge.