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Metodología para la evaluación de recursos digitales bibliográficos: experiencia del G8 Bibliotecas, Antioquia.
This article describes the collaborative experience of G8 Library Group of Medellin City in the
elaboration of the Technical Matrix for the assessment of Bibliographic Databases and digital
resources. Its purpose is serving as a reference to other institutions of the same nature. It is
highlighted the importance of having a permanent and systematic evaluation too for decision
making regarding the subscription or purchasing of digital resources, bibliographic databases,
discoverers and statistical software. The Matrix categories and its reference value are established
on 100 points: Search (20), Access (15), Utilities and tools (15), Administration module (10) and
Interface (5). In turn, factors and categories with their respective assigned scores are derived from
these categories, to later assign the grade and finally obtain the total score for the bibliographicdatabase. Likewise, qualitative information of the evaluation is included. This provides an
executive summary of the evaluation with decisive information in the decision making process
about bibliographic databases in libraries