Students and Federated Searching

Korah, Abe; Cassidy, Erin

doi:10.5860/rusq.49n4.325

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“…Collaborating these assertions, Salau and Gama (2015) also opined that users of electronic information would mostly use sources of access that can give them fewer challenges and offer more advantages to them especially for teaching and research; FSTs offer this advantage. Korah and Cassidy (2010), found a high rate of federated search amongst students of Sam Houston State University and stated that federated tools presented information in a simple, user-friendly way that required little formal knowledge of information organisation and searching techniques which made it attractive to many students.…”

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Usability effectiveness of a federated search system for electronic theses and dissertations in Nigerian institutional repositories

Salau

Abifarin

Alhassan

et al. 2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability effectiveness of a webware for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in Nigerian repositories. The webware (etdsearch.com.ng) is a web application system that curates ETDs from three sampled Federal government-owned universities. The system also links users to the repositories where the theses and dissertations are hosted.Design/methodology/approachThe case study research strategy was adopted for the study. Sixty postgraduate students from three universities were randomly selected. A usability evaluation questionnaire based on the ISO 9241-11 framework was used to collect data after performing pre-defined queries/tasks based on the informational and transactional query models. The research questions were analysed using the median of the performance score (fx) of the three universities for each item evaluated, while the Kruskall–Wallis test by ranks was used to test the null hypothesis at a 5% level of significance.FindingsThe study answered two research questions and tested two null hypotheses on the usability effectiveness of the webware based on the informational and transactional queries. The participants found the ETD search system effectively useable. In addition, there was no significant difference in the opinions of the participants.Research limitations/implicationsThe webware used simulated repositories as a feed bed for the ETDs in order to have control over the workability of the repositories. Thus, the results may differ slightly when “live” repositories are used.Practical implicationsThe effectiveness of a webware that aggregates ETDs in Nigerian repositories will present libraries in Nigeria with evidence on how these systems work and can be improved upon.Originality/valueThere is a dearth of literature on practical usability studies of digital information systems in Nigerian libraries.

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Section: Information Query Effectivenessmentioning

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Usability effectiveness of a federated search system for electronic theses and dissertations in Nigerian institutional repositories

Salau

Abifarin

Alhassan

et al. 2020

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“…Federated search was plagued by slow response times and only a satisfactory user experience 1 . Discovery products have surpassed the sophistication of the previous generation of federated search with the development of unified indexes, better relevancy ranking algorithms and features that resemble mainstream web search engines 2 .…”

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Augmenting discovery data and analytics to enhance library services

Janyk¹

2014

Insights: the UKSG journal

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Discovery services have become a norm in academic libraries. Usage data from these services has historically emphasized quantitative data such as full-text downloads, numbers of searches performed and title usage. Okanagan College Library incorporated Google Analytics into their discovery service in order to go beyond vendor-supplied quantitative data and obtain valuable qualitative information about users. This information can now be used to shape library services such as collection development, public services and interface design. The user-behaviour data findings are presented, along with suggestions for using this information to enhance library services.

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Electronic Resource Expenditure and the Decline in Reference Transaction Statistics in Academic Libraries

Dubnjakovic

2012

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Students and Federated Searching

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Usability effectiveness of a federated search system for electronic theses and dissertations in Nigerian institutional repositories

Usability effectiveness of a federated search system for electronic theses and dissertations in Nigerian institutional repositories

Augmenting discovery data and analytics to enhance library services

Electronic Resource Expenditure and the Decline in Reference Transaction Statistics in Academic Libraries

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