... students Internet Computers User studies Students Computer technology has revolutionized human society. Large‐scale computerization, perpetuation of the internet, and the global coverage of the web has made dissemination of information fast and extensive (Poulter, 2003). The present time...

.... Mvungi et al. (2008) notes that having a smaller number of participants leads to greater consensus and more readily identifies problems with the results. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Usability Libraries Homepage User experience User studies Information management...

... of organisational change and the impact of technology on the relationship between systems and user services librarians. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Communications Auditing User studies Design Worldwide web The study proposes an in‐depth usability analysis of the St Augustine Campus...

... discipline in question. Originality/value The consideration of disciplinary differences in relation to repository advocacy has only begun to be explored in the literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Digital storage Information services User studies Advocacy Australia...

... impact factor.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Digital libraries User studies Collection management Collection development In 1955 Eugene Garfield proposed a “bibliographic system for science literature that can eliminate the uncritical citation of fraudulent, incomplete...

... libraries Digital storage User studies Academic libraries Academic staff An institutional repository is a digital library of local digital content including “grey” literature. Grey literature “is any documentary material that is not commercially published and is typically composed of technical...

... and eight months dating from January 1998 to October 2004. Operating systems Worldwide web Transactional analysis User studies The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA (www.epa.gov/sor)) defines the Environmental Data Registry (EDR) as “… a comprehensive, authoritative source of reference...

... Link and 40 per cent in ScienceDirect. A total of 32 per cent give other sources of articles, like personal Web pages, ArXiv, Hal, other on‐line subscriptions like Jstor [3] , CiteSeer, or direct contact with the authors (see Figure 3). Archiving Data storage Computer studies Mathematics User...

... description”, available at: http://www.sfxit.com/openurl/openurl.htm . Internet User studies Libraries Locating the “appropriate copy” of an article is often a challenge for students and faculty at any institution. How do they know which periodicals are full‐text online or only available...

... metadata registry system, as recorded through web log transactions. The aim of this research is to enhance the understanding of the use and application of MetaForm and therefore metadata registry systems in general. MetaForm provides three services: Databases Electronic media Worldwide web User...

... them separate … the user may be discouraged from using them together in a more integrated way where the two functions can work together (Hartson et al., 2004, p. 117). Digital libraries Cartography User interfaces User studies This paper reports and analyzes the findings from...

... of those who have preceded them. Tests and testing Academic libraries Focus groups User studies Worldwide web The Northern Illinois University (NIU) Libraries' website design has undergone multiple revisions since its first inception. Starting in 1996, the Digital Library Committee...

.... The conclusion offers several suggestions for other libraries who wish to begin a statistical measurement program. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Statistics Library services Data collection Collection management User studies Librarians generally think of the gathering and assessment of library...

... efforts between the two departments. © MCB UP Limited 2002 User studies Internet Libraries Full‐text e‐journals have evolved into important collections for libraries. The University of Louisville (U of L) libraries responded to this evolution without hesitation and created a virtual...

... 2002 Libraries User studies Internet Records management 1. (1) How would we know which databases provided full‐text access to the journals that we were cutting? 2. (2) How could we make these electronic full‐text journals easily available to our customers...

... (entitled “Survey results: Dublin Core use in libraries”) on the DCMI Web site at (http://dublincore.org/news/). © MCB UP Limited 2002 User studies Libraries Internet Libraries have adapted readily to the growth of the World Wide Web. It is now commonplace for libraries to have some...

... could be conducted to understand usage patterns and guide CORC’s development and improvement. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Cataloguing Computer languages Libraries User studies Internet Table I shows that most survey participants found it “easy” (27 percent) or “somewhat easy” (61...

... languages Libraries User studies Internet This article reports on a survey of CORC founding libraries in late 1999. The purpose of the survey was to understand these libraries’ reasons for participating in the CORC project and their experience with the CORC system. Part I of this report covers...

... the usability test. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Internet User studies Information retrieval Catalogues Phase I, the subject of this article, was a quick, low‐budget test using paper prototypes of the screens and a sample of users chosen based on convenience (members of writing classes). Problems...