Impact-ED - A New Model of Digital Library Impact Evaluation

Evaluating digital libraries: a systematised review

“…Other topics of interest to researchers in the assessment of digital libraries are: efficacy (Buchanan & Salako, ) information security (Hariri & Nazari, 2012) task orientation (Meyyappan, Foo & Chowdhury, ) electronic resources (Hariri, Nooshinfard & Radfar, ) impact (Jabeen et al., ; Madle, Kostkova & Roudsari, ) open sources (Gkoumas & Lazarinis, ) …”

“… review (all types of review articles) (Ahmad & Abawajy, ; Alipoorhafezi & Adabi, ; Cullen, , ; Esfandiyari‐moghadam & Bayat, ; Fuhr et al., ; Jose, ; Mehrabadi, ; Noroozi, , 2010a; Noroozi & Akbari, ; Saracevic, ; Tsakonas et al., ; Tsakonas & Papatheodorou, ) checklist (Evaluate and compare the information displayed on digital libraries of national content consortium, ; Evaluation of search capabilities of digital libraries applications in Iran, ; Evaluation of Simorgh Digital Library with emphasis on managerial perspective, ; Hoe‐Lian Goh et al., ; Nabavi, ; Noroozi, 2010b; Noroozi & Montazeri, ; Tripathi & Jeevan, ; Zolghadr & Momeni, ) content analysis (Azadi‐Ahmadabadi, ; Gkoumas & Lazarinis, ; Sohrabi et al., ) online questionnaire and interview (Lai et al., ; Madle et al., ; Zhang, ) Online questionnaire (Garibay et al., ; Tsakonas & Papatheodorou, ) library methods (Retrospective studies that include reviews of articles and books, and questions from expert people) (Hassanzadeh & Sohrabzadeh, ) questionnaire and interview (Moreira et al., ; Snead et al., ) researcher developer questionnaire and checklist (mixed tools) (Amini, ; Ghaebi, Baradar & Farnaghi, ) semiexperimental method (Quijano‐Solís & Novelo‐Peña, )See Figure for the frequency of the methods used. …”

“…As Figure 3 suggests, the majority of studies were focused on evaluating the quality of digital libraries' services from the perspective of the users (Ahmad & Abawajy, 2014;Amannollahi-Nik, Alipoorhafezi & Matlabi, 2014;Amini, 2014;Garibay, Guti errez & Figueroa, 2010;Helena Vinagre, Gaspar Pinto & Ochôa, 2011;Jafar-Begloo, Hamidi, Anvari & Rouhani, 2014;Kyrillidou & Giersch, 2005;Lai, Chiu, Huang, Chen & Huang, 2014;Moreira, Gonc ßalves, Laender & Fox, 2009;Naiej, Noroozi & Hamidi, 2012;Sohrabi, Farzaneh & Reisi, 2010;Yousefzadeh-Najdi, 2013 Goh et al, 2006;Jose, 2007;Masoudnia & Ali-Ebadi, 2013;Tripathi & Jeevan, 2011;Xie, 2006Xie, , 2008. Studies are conducted to: • analyse aspects and methods used in the evaluation of digital libraries (Azadi-Ahmadabadi, 2008;Cullen, 2003Cullen, , 2004Esfandiyari-moghadam & Bayat, 2008;Mehrabadi, 2011;Noroozi, 2012;Saracevic, 2005;Zhang, 2010) • analyse the user interface/usability of digital • efficacy (Buchanan & Salako, 2009) • information security (Hariri & Nazari, 2012) • task orientation (Meyyappan, Foo & Chowdhury, 2004) • electronic resources (Hariri, Nooshinfard & Radfar, 2014) • impact (Jabeen et al, 2017;Madle, Kostkova & Roudsari, 2008) • open sources (...…”

What impact do healthcare digital libraries have? An evaluation of national resource of infection control at the point of care using the Impact-ED framework

“…However, measuring knowledge and attitude changes of digital library online users should not be performed by asking them to recall if the library has ever had an impact on their knowledge or their work, as has been the case for most previous digital library impact evaluations [17], but by actually measuring their specific knowledge and attitude changes at the point of use in real-time, using pre-and post-questionnaires. This approach has been piloted with a small digital library in the healthcare domain where library users were asked a series of questions before using the library and then asked the same questions after using the library, showing positive changes in knowledge and attitude [18,19].…”

“…But what is meant by impact and how can it be measured? A recent review of healthcare digital library impact evaluations identified a lack of a robust methodology, with most studies relying on self-reported user satisfaction scales as impact measurements [17]. This paper aims to present a new model for digital library impact evaluation and a new combination of methods to collect appropriate data and demonstrate its applicability on an evaluation of a key infection control digital library developed in the UK, the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC).…”