Abstract this paper summarizes the definition of usability , and briefly introduces some foreign cases of usability evaluation on open - source institutional repository - building software . then the usability method is proposed to evaluate open - source software based on the purpose and significance of building institutional repository 摘要總結(jié)可用性內(nèi)涵,簡(jiǎn)單介紹國(guó)外有關(guān)開(kāi)源機(jī)構(gòu)庫(kù)軟件可用性評(píng)估的案例,根據(jù)機(jī)構(gòu)庫(kù)建設(shè)的目的和意義,提出一套可用性運(yùn)用于開(kāi)源機(jī)構(gòu)庫(kù)軟件評(píng)估的方法。