In 1999 Victoria University Library received a
special university grant to fund a subscription
to ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect is a full-text
database of some 1100 Elsevier periodical titles
and its ongoing subscription would involve a
sizeable investment of the Library’s materials
budget.A year later, the Library needed to
undertake a thorough evaluation of this
product in order to decide on its possible
renewal.