title :DIRECT AND INDIRECT PROCESSES IN ELECTRON-IMPACT IONIZATION OF LITHIUM-LIKE IONS authors: Huaguo Teng and Alfred M\"uller Affiliations: Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Justus-Liebig-Universit\"at Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany summary: Direct and indirect ionization processes in lithium-like ions have been investigated using the R-matrix method. The direct ionization (DI), excitation-autoionization (EA), resonant excitation double-autoionization (REDA) and resonant excitation auto-double-ionization (READI) are treated in an unified way. The total ionization cross sections are calculated and compared with other theory and experimental measurement where available.