An educational resource for information literacy in higher education: Functional and users analyses of the e-COMS academic portal.

Autor/inn/en	Pinto, Maria; Doucet, Anne-Vinciane
Titel	An educational resource for information literacy in higher education: Functional and users analyses of the e-COMS academic portal.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2007) 2, S.225-252 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-007-1725-9
Schlagwörter	Search Engine; Usability Test; Information Literacy; Visit Duration; AMERICAN Library Association
Abstract	Abstract As in today’s knowledge society the Internet is playing an important role in the information literacy of university students the goal of this paper is to analyse, after its first year on the Web, the informational impact of an e-learning resource developed by Granada’s University lecturers (the e-COMS educational portal), a pioneer in Spain for training in information literacy. From the objective and subjective data provided by the own portal and by it users, two different and complementary kinds of analysis (functional and users’) are performed. Assessment of various capabilities, among which visibility and usability stand out, is provided. The highly positive but improvable results offer a detailed analysis of the functional aspects of the portal itself and of the users’ relations with this information resource. From these analyses strengths and weaknesses are extracted and some proposals for improvement are derived.
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Update	2023/2/05