Usability, user preferences, effectiveness, and user behaviors when searching individual and integrated full-text databases: implications for digital libraries

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 456-468

  Park, Soyeon ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; USABILITY; USER PREFERENCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033872886     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:5<456::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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