Electronic Information Delivery: Ensuring Quality and Value

by Reva Basch

How do you judge the accuracy, reliability and completeness of an electronic or online database? Can quality be designed in? In the early 1990s, several initiatives were launched, including the influential SCOUG (Southern California Online Users Group) database rating scale. This project was intended to review database performance across ten broad categories: consistency; coverage and scope; timelessness; accuracy/error rate; accessibility/ease of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0566075679
• ISBN13: 9780566075674
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"