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MedlinePlus??: The National Library of Medicine?? Brings Quality Information to Health Consumers
The National Library of Medicine???s (NLM??) MedlinePlus?? is a high-quality
gateway to consumer health information from NLM, the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), and other authoritative organizations. For decades,
NLM has been a leader in indexing, organizing, and distributing health
information to health professionals. In creating MedlinePlus, NLM uses
years of accumulated expertise and technical knowledge to produce an
authoritative, reliable consumer health Web site. This article describes the
development of MedlinePlus???its quality control processes, the integration
of NLM and NIH information, NLM???s relationship to other institutions,
the technical and staffing infrastructures, the use of feedback for quality
improvement, and future plans.published or submitted for publicatio
Critical Success Factors for Positive User Experience in Hotel Websites: Applying Herzberg's Two Factor Theory for User Experience Modeling
This research presents the development of a critical success factor matrix
for increasing positive user experience of hotel websites based upon user
ratings. Firstly, a number of critical success factors for web usability have
been identified through the initial literature review. Secondly, hotel websites
were surveyed in terms of critical success factors identified through the
literature review. Thirdly, Herzberg's motivation theory has been applied to
the user rating and the critical success factors were categorized into two
areas. Finally, the critical success factor matrix has been developed using the
two main sets of data.Comment: Journal articl
An Examination of Privacy Policies of US Government Senate Websites.
US Government websites are rapidly increasing the services they offer, but users express concerns about their personal privacy protection. To earn user's trust, these sites must show that personal data is protected, and the sites contain explicit privacy policies. This research studied privacy policy protection of 50 US Senate sites and found that few had comprehensive elements of privacy policies and a general lack of protection of personal data that could be obtain from the website. The study reviewed which specific privacy elements are most often mishandled, as well as suggestions for improving an overall online privacy practice
Users' trust in information resources in the Web environment: a status report
This study has three aims; to provide an overview of the ways in which trust is either assessed or asserted in relation to the use and provision of resources in the Web environment for research and learning; to assess what solutions might be worth further investigation and whether establishing ways to assert trust in academic information resources could assist the development of information literacy; to help increase understanding of how perceptions of trust influence the behaviour of information users
Alter ego, state of the art on user profiling: an overview of the most relevant organisational and behavioural aspects regarding User Profiling.
This report gives an overview of the most relevant organisational and\ud
behavioural aspects regarding user profiling. It discusses not only the\ud
most important aims of user profiling from both an organisation’s as\ud
well as a user’s perspective, it will also discuss organisational motives\ud
and barriers for user profiling and the most important conditions for\ud
the success of user profiling. Finally recommendations are made and\ud
suggestions for further research are given
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