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What to provide to your users?

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A Dinghy or a Yacht ?

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Evaluation – a practical framework

• Health Information providers• Framework for Medical E-resources• Compare quality & usability• Access & troubleshooting issues• Review fee & free e-resources• Decide when & how to purchase

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Health Information providers

• Know your audience

• What are their subjects of interest

• How do they need to access information

• Opportunities & challenges for delivery…

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Health Information providers

• Know your audience

• What are their subjects of interest

• How do they need to access information

• Opportunities & challenges for delivery

Quality Assurance PrinciplesResource Characteristics

Roles & ResponsibilitiesCollection PolicySelection Tools & Processes

Collection AuditOutcomes & Evaluation

Health Collection Quality Assurance Framework

Health Information Users

Health Information Agency (s)

Health Information Providers

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Compare quality & usability

• Guidelines for evaluating quality…

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Compare quality & usability

• Guidelines for evaluating quality

• Content format & design standards…

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Compare quality & usability

• Guidelines for evaluating quality

• Content format & use

• Interface, functionality

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Content •Need for content based on knowledge, literature, validation by peers, faculty/researcher requests.

•Review content promised by product: books, journals, full text, dates of coverage.

•Appropriateness: confirm relevance to user

Interface •Confirm ease of use Menus, buttons, default values, screen layout, font type, language

Search •Confirm search results, index, thesaurus quality

Access Adaptive technologies? Blinking display/inverse video?

MDConsult – Main Menu page• Tabbed search

options• Easy to read text

font• Quick search

with pull down lists conveniently located below tabs

• Advanced Search link close at hand

MDConsult - Journals search screen

• Consistent screen layout for search functions and result displays

• Journal search (left) has clear search boxes, pull-down lists and radio buttons

• Full Text & PDF with icons

MDConsult – Book result screen• Table of contents

and chapter navigation clear and easy to use

• Images display without problems

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• Guidelines for evaluating quality

• Content format & use

• Interface, functionality

• Testing access…

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Access & troubleshooting issues

• Licensed user limits…

Open Access licenses/principlesExcept where otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Canada Licence.

We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation

Free Medical Journals is a Free Medical Information website. Advertising is not accepted. Your personal information remains confidential and is not sold, leased, or given to any third party.

Copyright 1995-2006 - Carden Jennings Publishing Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. The material available at this site is for educational purposes only and is NOT intended for any diagnostic, clinically related, or other purpose. Carden Jennings Publishing Co., Ltd., assumes no responsibility for any use or misuse of this material and makes no warranty or representation of any kind with respect to the material available at this site.

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Access & troubleshooting issues

• Licensed user limits

• Stability of access

• Restoring access

• Abuse of licences

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Review fee & free e-resources

• Cost

• Marketing…

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Review fee & free e-resourcesSample medical eresources

• Cost

• Marketing

• Training

• Usage

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Decide when and how to purchase

• Audience

• Options

• Budget

• Quantity versus quality

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Evaluation – a practical framework

• Health Information providers• Framework for Medical E-resources• Quality & usability• Access & troubleshooting• Fee & Free e-resources• When & how to purchase

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Questions?

Mary Cavanagh: mcavanagh@uottawa.caProject Coordinator, SmartLibrary www.smartlib-bibliogen.ca

Cynthia Bail cbail@uottawa.caIT Support Librarian, Systems Division, Library www.biblio.uottawa.ca

Thank you!References