This paper presented an assessment of the efficiency of online database used for scientific production in Chinese Project 985 universities in 2015.The methodology used was the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).The number of databases and the number of professors were used as input indicators.The number of scientific publications indexed in Scopus was used as output indicators.The study found that the use of databases to produce scientific publications was inefficient in most of the universities analyzed.The policy recommendations are:enhancing the level of research support service of the libraries, speeding up to promote the university library alliance to play their service value, strengthening the use of open access resources, adjusting policies of incentives for scientific research.