The National Library of Medicine's strategy for assessing the impacts of health information web sites

Information Services and Use

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 227-234

  Siegel, Elliot R ^a   Wood, Fred B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HTTP; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SERVERS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

HEALTH INFORMATION WEB SITES; USABILITY TESTING; USER FEEDBACK; WEB LOG DATA ANALYSIS;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 0346972445     PISSN: 01675265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2003-23403     Document Type: Article

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