CUNY+ Web: Usability study of the Web-based GUI version of the bibliographic database of the city university of New York (CUNY)

Electronic Library

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 481-487

  Oulanov, Alexei ^a   Pajarillo, Edmund F Y ^b  

^a QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b New York Home Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Databases; Graphical user interfaces; User studies; Wide area networks; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0036902432     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470210454001     Document Type: Article

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