The economic analysis and evaluation of information and documentation systems

摘要

Significant results of a project carried out by the Studiengruppe für System-forschung e.V. (Heidelberg, W. Germany) on the “Economy of Information and Documentation Systems” are described. The aims of this project in the framework of the German national “Program of the Federal Government for the Promotion of Information and Documentation (I&D-Program) 1974–1977” were to develop methods for measuring the efficiency of information and documentation systems and services and to test such methods in actual practice.