Evaluating IAIMS at Yale: Information Access

Evaluating IAIMS at Yale: information access.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate use of information resources during the first year of IAIMS implementation at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. The evaluation asked: (1) Which information resources are being used? (2) Who uses information resources? (3) Where are information resources used? (4) Are multiple sources of information being integrated? DESIGN Measures included monthly usage data for resour...

Evaluating Heterogeneous Information Access (Position Paper)

Information access is becoming increasingly heterogeneous. We need to better understand the more complex user behaviour within this context so that to properly evaluate search systems dealing with heterogeneous information. In this paper, we review the main challenges associated with evaluating search in this context and propose some avenues to incorporate user aspects into evaluation measures.

“Winter” at Yale

The history of the Yale School of Medicine is illuminated by the names of many great men. A distinguished school is a living organism and the soul which inspires and guides it has been created by the dreams and the visions which have gone before. In the Yale School of Medicine, no one of our distinguished leaders has played a greater role in this creative process than Milton Winternitz. When "W...

Biotechnology at Yale.

With Yale committing $1 billion to the development of science and technology there is much curiosity about how Yale will spend its money and why Yale is deciding to spend it now. Biotechnology in New Haven, in part, explains Yale?s move towards the sciences. With the decline in the New Haven economy since World War II, Yale stands to benefit greatly if the New Haven economy is revived, in part ...

Public Health at Yale *