Evaluation of the web-page qualitative level of a university library specialized in medical sciences .

A. Barbeta, M.J. Garcia Mateu, A Murillo, R. Pinilla, C. Roig 
Universitat de Valencia - Facultad de Medicina - Biblioteca
Avda. Blasco Ibanez, 17 - 46010 Valencia (Spain)
MJesus.Garcia-Mateu@uv.es

• to establish the quality of external electronic resources useful to an university biomedical library.
• to analyze the validity of a questionnaire suitable to decide if a resource might to be included among library stocks, applying it to selected web pages 
• to establish how many among the web pages selected reach the quality level suitable to our users with regard to the following criteria: context, contents, access and interactivity and design.

Methods
 

Results
 

Conclusions

• General search engines (Altavista) are not siutable to our users
• Design and access are less relevant factors
• Context and content are, in our opinion, the most relevant criteria and, however, they are the most insufficient
• Context: although the author is identifiable, there are not further informations
• Content: precision, objectiviness and originality meet the expectations. Primary and detailed informations are insufficient.
• Access: it may be implemented, including a map of the web page and the local navigation by connection nodes; description and evaluation of connexions are lacking
• Autodescription
• Titles and first paragraphs acceptables
• Internal Structure (metatags, DC) not sufficient