Usability in Scientific Databases
Ana-Maria Suduc, Mihai Bîzoi, Florin Gheorghe Filip · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2012
Usability, most often defined as the ease of use and acceptability of a system, affects the users' performance and their job satisfaction when working with a machine. Therefore, usability is a very important aspect which must be considered in the process of a system development. The paper presents several numerical data related to the history of the scientific research of the usability of information systems, as it is viewed in the information provided by three important scientific databases, Science Direct, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library, at different queries related to this field.