Title :
Evaluating the usability of discipline repositories
Author :
Feng Qing ; Huang Ruhua
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Manage., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan
Abstract :
Emergence of open access repositories has extended digital libraries, while evaluation of the digital libraries has drawn great attention in recent years. Discipline repository is a major type of open repositories which have developed quickly with the open access movement. The present research proposes an evaluation criteria system and applies it to assess the usability of three selected discipline repositories, aims to find the common features of discipline repositories in usability.
Keywords :
digital libraries; digital library; discipline repository; evaluation criteria system; open access movement; open access repository; usability; Context modeling; Educational products; Health information management; Humans; Information resources; Interactive systems; Publishing; Software libraries; Sustainable development; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
IT in Medicine and Education, 2008. ITME 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3616-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2511-2
DOI :
10.1109/ITME.2008.4743892
