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ABSTRACT
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.