What's the Use? A Cost-per-use Study of Selected Business Databases
Michael M. Smith, Jane A. Smith · The International Information & Library Review · 2016
The authors calculated the cost-per-use of a number of business-related databases to determine which resources are used most often and whether the higher-priced resources yielded an acceptable cost-per-use. This study found that some of the most expensive databases are the most cost-effective and vice versa; that some non-counting online usage of networked electronic resources-compliant business databases provided better statistics than their counting online usage of networked electronic resources-compliant counterparts to determine derived value; and that while usage data is important, it will not provide a complete account of a database's worth.