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| Your Name: | County: |
| Are you currently subscribing to this database? ...Yes ......No | |
| Are you currently trial testing this database? ........Yes ......No | |
| The cost is too high for you to afford? .................Yes ......No | |
| Database Information | |
| Title: | |
| Producer: | |
| Authority: | |
| Advertised Price: | |
| Price you have negotiated: | |
| Content | |
| Appropriateness of content for your user population (elem, middle, hs) Describe your user population and then define how the product meets information/curricular needs of the group. | |
| Readability (reading level, hits have readability scale given, etc.) | |
| Is it appropriate for special needs students? Explain in terms of readability, graphics, audio clips, language translator, etc.) | |
| Total Number of titles (indexed, abstracted, full text) | |
| Depth of coverage (scope of backfiles, full text or abstract) | |
| Frequency of updates (daily, monthly, quarterly, when the producer gets around to it) | |
| What print source does it replicate? | |
| Interface and Access | |
| Does it load quickly, do you have a lot of screens to move through before you get to the 'real' content? | |
| Do graphics and multimedia contribute to the content or clutter? | |
| Are buttons/click bars/check boxes/scroll bars easy to see, understand, and use? | |
| Are there adequate help files? | |
| Are there convenient guides for
moving about the database (next/previous, top of page, back to home, back to search index, new search, exit, etc.)? |
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| Is there a thesaurus/index available? | |
| Is remote access available so that students can use the database from home? | |
| Are advertisements present? | |
| Search Features | |
| Search strategy (natural language, subject, boolean, author/title, keyword, advanced, etc.) | |
| Limit to current/backfile/by date/by publisher/to full text only/reading level | |
| Ability to sort | |
| Can searches be edited? | |
| Availability of relevance ranking (and how successful is it) | |
| Cross referencing (within database, web links) | |
| Can searches be saved? | |
| Other Features | |
| Mark up/choice of individual items in results/ability to edit results before printing/downloading | |
| Download/Print options (email search results for printing at home, print only part of search results/information on screen, print screen option, etc.) | |
| Technical support available via email and/or phone | |
| Are any schedule upgrades in progress? | |
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