Researchers are needed to participate in a series of usability tests for a new release of ScholarSphere, a secure repository service that enables the Penn State community to share research and scholarly work with a worldwide audience. The usability tests will be conducted from July 8 to 31, in Davey Laboratory, Instruction Room 211 (in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library) and anyone in the Penn State community can sign up to participate. Sign up for a session here: http://portal.outreach.psu.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=190361. Up to 10 participants will be accepted for each session. Participants will need to bring a flash drive with files to deposit into ScholarSphere. (More than one file is needed in order to test the “sets/collections” feature.)
The sessions will focus primarily on these features of the service:
- Organizing files into collections for easier management and discovery
- Uploading files via your Dropbox account
- Depositing files on behalf of another user