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Database Evaluation Form for Faculty
Electronic Resources Committee, Montgomery College Libraries

Your evaluation of new databases is vital to the process of selecting electronic resources.  Please take a few moments to fill in this online evaluation form.  Your contribution is greatly appreciated.
Name:
Department or Subject:
Campus: Germantown                Rockville
Takoma Park/SS           Distance Learning
Database Evaluated:

Indicate for each of the four areas whether the database:

  • has functionality similar to most other databases that you have used, or about what you would expect (Meets expectations);
  • has functionality better than most other databases that you have used (Exceeds expectations), or:
  • has functionality inferior to most other databases that you have used (Below expectations)

I.  Searching.   Consider the search interface design, ease of navigation, basic and advanced search capabilities, subject indexing, and help screens.

Exceeds expectations          Meets expectations          Below expectations

Comments:


  II.  Content. Consider content quality, whether content is interdisciplinary, full text coverage, depth of indexing and coverage dates, types of content (academic, consumer, multimedia), appropriateness for community college audience, and whether content supports current curriculum needs.

Exceeds expectations          Meets expectations          Below expectations

Comments:

III.  Retrieval.   Consider ease of filtering, sorting, selecting, viewing, printing, saving, e-mailing, citing, and linking to results.

Exceeds expectations          Meets expectations          Below expectations

Comments:

IV.  Overall Quality.

Exceeds expectations          Meets expectations          Below expectations

Comments:

PURCHASE RECOMMENDATION

Recommend purchase                 Do not recommend purchase 
Purchase recommendation depends on factors in comments below

Comments:

    Send information to the library committee          Clear form for another evaluation

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