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,簡單介紹國外有關(guān)開源機構(gòu)庫軟件可用性評估的案例,根據(jù)機構(gòu)庫建設(shè)的目的和意義,提出一套可用性運用于開源機構(gòu)庫軟件評估的方法。