A usability evaluation study of a digital library self-archiving service Lena Veiga e Silva, Alberto H. F. Laender, and Marcos André Gonçalves   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Users and interaction track 1: understanding user needs and perceptions Abstract In this paper 1, we describe an evaluation study of a self-archiving service for the Brazilian Digital Library of Computing (BDBComp). We conducted an extensive usability experiment with several potential users, including graduate students, professors, and archivists/librarians. The results of the study are described and analyzed, following sound statistical principles. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery