Model for presenting resources in scholar's portal

Portal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-211

  Feeney, Mary ^a   Newby, Jill ^a  

^a University of Arizona Library   (United States)

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EID: 18744386939     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2005.0022     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. OED Online, s.v. "portal," http://www.library.arizona.edu/ indexes/links/oed.shtml (accessed January 11, 2005).
2. Mary E. Jackson, Current State of Portal Applications in ARL Libraries: Results of a Survey Conducted by the ARL Portal Applications Working Group (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, May 2004): 3-4, http://www.arl.org/access/portal/PAWGfinalrpt.pdf (accessed January 11, 2005).
3. Jerry D. Campbell, "Access in a Networked World: Scholars Portal in Context," Library Trends 52, 2 (Fall 2003): 252.
4. Karen Wetzel and Mary E. Jackson, "Portal Functionality Provided by ARL Libraries: Results of an ARL Survey," ARL Bimonthly Report 222 (June 2002), http://www.arl.org/ newsltr/222/portalsurvey.html (accessed January 11, 2005).
5. Jerry D. Campbell, "The Case for Creating a Scholars Portal to the Web: A White Paper," ARL Bimonthly Report 211 (August 2000), http://www.arl.org/newsltr/211/portal.html (accessed January 11, 2005).
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8. Association of Research Libraries, ARL Scholars Portal Working Group Report, "User Scenario for ARL Scholars Portal 'Single Search' Option" (May 2001), http://www.arl.org/ access/scholarsportal/may01rept.html (accessed January 11, 2005);
9. Association of Research Libraries, "Update to ARL Members from the ARL Scholars Portal Working Group" (ARL Business Meeting, May 24, 2001), http://www.arl.org/access/ scholarsportal/update5_24_01.html (accessed January 11, 2005).
10. Association of Research Libraries, "Seven ARL Libraries Launch Scholars Portal Project in Collaboration with Fretwell-Downing, Inc." (May 1, 2002), http://www.arl.org/arl/pr/ scholars_portal.html (accessed January 11, 2005).
11. University of Arizona Library, "Technology Planning Project Team Final Report" (July 2002), http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/ tppt/Final.pdf (accessed January 11, 2005). For more details about SPIN and the Scholar's Portal Project at the UA see http:/ /www.library.arizona.edu/library/ teams/spin/.
12. Mary E. Jackson, "The Advent of Portals," Library Journal 127, 15 (September 15, 2002): 37.
13. Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter, The Memory Jogger II: A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement and Effective Planning (Methuen, NJ: GOAL/QPC, 1994): 12-5.
14. For the detailed concept report, see SPRAT Concept Report, http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/spin/Concept_Report.pdf (accessed January 11, 2005).
15. For the detailed team plan, see SPRAT Team Plan, http://www.library. arizona.edu/library/teams/spin/sprat__team_plan.pdf.
16. For the completed decision matrix, see Decision Matrix, http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/spin/DecisionMatrix.xls (accessed January 11, 2005).
17. For one example in the literature of the use of a decision matrix for making decisions about other library services, see David Ball, "A Weighted Decision Matrix for Outsourcing Library Services," The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 16, 1 (2003): 25-30.
18. For the detailed blueprint, see Blueprint for Initial Release, http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/spin/Blueprint-rev.pdf (accessed January 11, 2005).
19. For limited access to Beta-SEARCH from the University of Arizona Library, see http:// www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/betasearch.shtml (accessed January 11, 2005) and select the guest log-in. Guest access searches across the Arizona Health Sciences Library, Law Library, and UA Libraries catalogs.
20. David Groenewegen and Simon Huggard, "The Answer to All Our Problems? Trialling a Library Portal," Library Review 52, 9 (2003): 453.
21. Ruth Dickstein and Victoria Mills, "Usability Testing at the University of Arizona Library: How to Let the Users in on the Design," Information Technology and Libraries 19, 3 (2001): 144-51;
22. Jerilyn Veldof, Michael J. Prasse, and Victoria A. Mills, "Chauffeured by the User: Usability in the Electronic Library," Journal of Library Administration 26, 3/4 (1999): 115-40
23. ; and Elaina Norlin and C.M. Winters, Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On Guide (Chicago: American Library Association, 2002).
24. Jeffrey Rubin, Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design and Conduct Effective Tests (New York: Wiley, 1994), 145-50.
25. Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Indianapolis, IN: Que, 2000), 155-73.
26. For the detailed feedback plan, see Feedback Plan for Scholar's Portal Initial Launch, http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/spin/feedback_plan. pdf (accessed January 11, 2005).
27. Nicole Campbell, Usability Assessment of Library-Related Web Sites: Methods and Case Studies (Chicago: American Library Association, 2001), 80.
28. Donna Fryer, "Federated Search Engines," Online 28, 2 (March/April 2004): 19.
29. Joel Cummings and Ryan Johnson, "The Use and Usability of SFX: Content-Sensitive Reference Linking," Library Hi Tech 21, 1 (2003): 83.
30. Malcolm Moffat, "Subject Portals Project: Usability Testing of Generic Portal Interface," Heriot Watt University Library (September 12, 2003), http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/ documents/testing/phase2/ SPP_Testing_Round3_V1.doc (accessed January 11, 2005).
31. Groenewegen and Huggard.
32. Jackson, "Advent of Portals," 38.
33. Todd W. Zazelenchuk and Elizabeth Boling, "Considering User Satisfaction in Designing Web-Based Portals," Educause Quarterly 26, 1 (2003): 35-40.
34. Groenewegen and Huggard, 459.
35. Campbell, "Access in a Networked World," 248.