Usability Testing for e-Resource Discovery: How Students Find and Choose e-Resources Using Library Web Sites

Fry, Amy; Rich, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2011.06.003

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“…For example, Amy Fry and Linda Rich (2011) found that students can have difficulty choosing which databases to use for a search. Students they observed often did not properly use subject guides and database lists (if they used them at all).…”

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Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

Jones

Thorpe

2014

Journal of Web Librarianship

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This study sought to describe and analyze the home pages of academic library Web sites at 313 mediumsized bachelor's and master's general institutions. The authors evaluated an unprecedented number of library home pages for the presence of 118 design elements and reported common and uncommon design practices at these libraries. They found 21 elements present on at least half of the home pages studied.Seven of these occurred on at least 80 percent of the pages studied: links to the university home page, library hours, images, portals by subject or links to subject guides, links to interlibrary loan services,

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“…These have included case studies of implementing a site design or feature (Ganster and Schumacher 2009;Moore and Greene 2012), as well as usability testing of specific components, such as catalog systems (Emanuel 2011) and discovery tools (Majors 2012), or lists of electronic resources (Fry and Rich 2011).…”

Section: Library Home Page Designmentioning

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Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

Jones

Thorpe

2014

Journal of Web Librarianship

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“…Usage patterns are also closely tied to brand recognition and familiarity. Users tend to click on what they recognize and what they have used before, even if there are more relevant resources at their disposal (Fry & Rich, 2011). These factors can disrupt usage, but a higher CPU might not fully capture the resource's holistic value and potential to meet the needs of the library's community in the future.…”

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Beyond Cost Per Use: Exploring Multivariable E-Resource Assessment

McAllister¹

2018

What’s Past Is Prologue: Charleston Conference Proceedings 2017

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“…As the behavior and characteristic of today's researchers (or students) in an academic setting evolves, the word -collaboration, sharing, mobility, access and ubiquity starts to change and influence in the activities cycle of research workflow (Flynn, Gilchrist, & Olson, 2004;Fry & Rich, 2011;Wendling & Johnson, 2008). Tools, such as Endnote and RefWorks, have to go beyond than the original functionally.…”

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Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

Aziz

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Yahya

2013

SSRN Journal

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With the advent of internet technologies in today's information science landscape, a number of researchers and scholars are using new media into their professional communication and scholarly work. This action shifted the patterns in using beyond than just a reference management tool and place a challenge in library science's service on the reflection of new demographic pool's patrons behavior and usage in using the library's model. Librarians have to keep up on their toes, with these attributes in acquiring knowledge, tools, resources and operations to serve a unique information service model to their patrons, especially in academic and research libraries. Understanding the needs of the librarians, here at Swets, the partnership with Mendeley aims to set a milestone ahead to aid and provide a strategic alignment model for their on-progress challenging model. Together, in this paper, the illustration will focus on the discussion topic to invest and align strategically, a tool that is designed to be part of the ecological cycle in current scholarly communication lifestyle. Mendeley is not only build for a basic reference management tools to aid academics and researchers (or even undergraduate) in their daily academic writing. But, that will be beyond than just a scholar's imagination. This includes topics as access, visible, preserve, collaborate, share, knowledge transfer, mobile and openness. This is because Mendeley rides on the open science concept, indirectly immerse the usage of the product in part of a scholar's life in a university. This will seeds a good, positive seeding investment for librarians and research managers to look beyond the basic service model, along with the other productive competitive services and platforms, especially for Malaysia's and South East Asia's library and information science industry to leverage for the future in open science development.

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Usability Testing for e-Resource Discovery: How Students Find and Choose e-Resources Using Library Web Sites

Cited by 29 publications

References 17 publications

Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

Beyond Cost Per Use: Exploring Multivariable E-Resource Assessment

Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

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