Ease of use versus user control: an evaluation of Web and non-Web interfaces of online databases

Online Information Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 102-115

  Xie, Hong Iris ^a   Cool, Colleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Information retrieval; Internet; Online retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING;

COMMAND-LINE SEARCHING; ONLINE RETRIEVAL; TIME CONSUMING; USER CONTROL;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0005766304     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520010330265     Document Type: Review

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