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

Gemma Madle; Patty Kostkova; Jane Mani-Saada; Anjana Roy

doi:10.1177/1460458206063809

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

Gemma Madle^*
, Patty Kostkova
, Jane Mani-Saada
, Anjana Roy

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI: http://www.neli.org.uk) in the UK is a freely available portal to key evidence and guidelines in the infectious disease field. This paper discusses 5 years of evaluation of the pilot library and how this evaluation informed design of the new library website. The importance of combining qualitative quantitative evaluation is highlighted and the results of web access logs analysis, free text search query analysis and an online user survey are compared. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned for future development and evaluation of this Internet digital library.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	137-151
Number of pages	15
Journal	Health Informatics Journal
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458206063809
Publication status	Published - Jun 2006

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

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