While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access
to a wealth of peer‐reviewed literature, their interfaces provide little support for exploratory …

Today'software systems have to cope with changing environments while at the same time
facing high non-functional requirements such as flexibility and dependability. Recently …

Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems.
Information science has contributed much to the design and evaluation of previous …

Academic digital library searchers often employ exploratory search strategies when faced
with the complex search task of finding academic literature on a topic that is new to them …

Despite ongoing advances in information retrieval algorithms, people continue to
experience difficulties when conducting online searches within digital libraries. Because …

Search engine results pages (SERPs) commonly organize online search results in a list-
based format. Various viewing formats have been suggested to improve search …

Information connects man to its fate and participates in his individual odyssey, his life
adventure in the space and time. The essence of the information phenomenon is this …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to compare the evaluation of search result lists and
documents, in particular evaluation criteria, elements, association between criteria and …

In recent years, numerous visual Web search interfaces have been developed in the
research community. However, the user evaluations of these interfaces have been …

Background: Diverse users need to search health and medical literature to satisfy open-
ended goals such as making evidence-based decisions and updating their knowledge …