...Hero Khezri; Peyman Rezaei; Fateme Askarian; Reza Ferdousi Purpose Evaluating health information systems is an integral part of the life cycle and development of information systems as it can improve the quality of health care. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a bilingual Web-based...

...Monireh Gharibe Niazi; Masumeh Karbala Aghaei Kamran; Amir Ghaebi Purpose This study aims to design a proposed framework for evaluating university websites. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory mixed research. It was an applied research in terms of objective and used...

...Younghee Noh Purpose This study aims to develop an evaluation index to evaluate the economic value among the values of the library and also attempts to measure the economic value of the library by performing a survey of the librarians and users at public libraries. The results of this research...

... transducer was developed, which recognizes text sequences having that structure and outputs the sequence in a normalized form, so that different inflectional forms of the same multiword term can be counted properly. Term candidates were further filtered by their frequencies and evaluated by two domain...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Evaluation Quantitative research methods Statistical methodology Temporal analysis Research in common parlance refers to a logical and systematic search for knowledge (Kothari, 2004). The most widely used research methodologies can...

.... The purpose of this paper was to evaluate Iranian state university websites using the Web quality evaluation method (WebQEM). Design/methodology/approach The research method was a combination of a descriptive survey and Delphi technique. The research population included 100 Iranian state university...

...Lih-Juan ChanLin; Wei-Hsiang Hung Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the use of a library mobile website at a university library. This paper aims to present the approach adopted to investigate users’ reactions to the new mobile platform. A usability test was also...

...Cuichang Ma; Shujin Cao; Tinghua Gu Purpose The purpose of this study is to present an approach to evaluating the usability of digital libraries in terms of knowledge states within the information search process (ISP) by investigating the connections among components with which users interact...

...Margam Madhusudhan; Vikas Singh Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various features and functions of Koha, Libsys, NewGenLib and Virtua with the help of specially designed evaluation checklist and rank them based on features/functions of integrated library management system...

...Mehdi Alipour-Hafezi; Hamid Amanollahi Nick Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify the situation of evaluating Iranian digital libraries using DigiQUAL protocol. Design/methodology/approach – Evaluative survey research method is used in this study to assess digital libraries...

...Miroslaw Górny; John Catlow; Jolanta Mazurek Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the role played by digital libraries in Polish society, particularly in relation to users who are not in education or professionally engaged in academic work. Design/methodology...

... perspectives, dealing mainly with information quality and value, as well as “evaluation” as a methodological operation in the context of information services in three distinct areas, namely, “service performance evaluation”, “information retrieval evaluation” and “information flow evaluation”. The second...

... are presented to facilitate brevity and clarity of the prevailing opinions: H5. Most of the medical students were able to use the acquired knowledge in practice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Evaluation Information literacy Librarians E-learning Efficiency Academic...

...Cristina Faba Pérez; Isabel María Sanz Caballero Purpose – The purpose of the present work was to design a comprehensive weighted features model for the specific evaluation of archival websites, and to apply it in practice to the particular population of Spain's web archives, ranking them...

...Jirí Kratochvíl Purpose The main purpose of this article is to describe and to evaluate the results of evaluation of the e‐learning course, Information Literacy, which is taught by the librarians at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University. In the article the results are discussed to inform...

...Andrew D. Madden; Nigel Ford; Genevieve Gorrell; Barry Eaglestone; Peter Holdridge Purpose The research reported here generated a list of criteria adopted by postgraduate students when evaluating websites. The analysis presented aims to determine whether metacognition played any part...

...‐books and provide a backdrop to EBONI’s research, are presented. EBONI’s methodology and evaluations, involving over 200 students, lecturers and researchers in UK Higher Education, are described, and the findings discussed. It is proposed that, while aspects of paper books such as tables of contents...

... three nurses used and evaluated three different types of information search databases in terms of three measure criteria. The results are useful in guiding nurses to use these information sources, as well as other database users with little or no experience in searching such systems. Insights from...

... to negotiate the site and, additionally, make recommendations for the key ingredients: information design, access tools, and navigational aids. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Web sites Design Universities Evaluation Effectiveness The impact of information architecture on academic web site usability...

...Helge Clausen This paper presents the major findings from the project “Development of new methods for evaluation of library Web sites on the World Wide Web”. The report includes a brief examination and discussion of quality applied to Web sites in general and concerning library Web sites...