Lessons learned from evaluation of the use of the National electronic Library of Infection

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-151

  Madle, Gemma ^a   Kostkova, Patty ^b   Mani Saada, Jane ^b   Roy, Anjana ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b City eHealth Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital library evaluation; Internet digital libraries; National electronic Library of Infection; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; ELECTRONICS; INFECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33646027283     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458206063809     Document Type: Article

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