Usability, User Preferences, Effectiveness, and User Behaviors When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-Text Databases: Implications for Digital Libraries.

Park, Soyeon

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ERIC Number: EJ606879

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Publication Date: 2000

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Usability, User Preferences, Effectiveness, and User Behaviors When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-Text Databases: Implications for Digital Libraries.

Park, Soyeon

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v51 n5 p456-68 Mar 15 2000

Discusses how to support effective interaction of users with heterogeneous and distributed information resources in a digital library environment. Compares usability, user preference, effectiveness, and searching behaviors in systems that implement interaction with multiple databases through a common interface, and with multiple databases as if they were one (integrated interaction). (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Electronic Libraries, Full Text Databases, Interaction, Online Searching, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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