Evaluating a digital library self-archiving service: The BDBComp user case study

Authors:
Lena Veiga e Silva;Marcos André Gonçalves;Alberto H. F. Laender
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Venue:
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this article, we present an overview of a self-archiving service for the Brazilian Digital Library of Computing (BDBComp) and describe a user experiment conducted to evaluate it. This experiment involved several potential real users, including computer science graduate students and professors, and archivists/librarians. The results of this study and their implications for similar services are described and analyzed, following sound statistical principles, which can serve as a basis for other similar studies. These results and their analysis indicate that we have successed in building a usable, efficient and learnable self-archiving service, properties which are essential to bring users to the system.