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SURVEY 98 BIOSCIENCE/HEALTH SCIENCE INSERT RESULTS

Revised November 1998

COLLEGE/SCHOOL AFFILIATION

Other
College/School

Faculty

Grad/Professional

Health Sciences
College/School

Faculty

Grad/Professional

%

#

%

#

%

#

%

#

A&S Science

9.1

59

11.8

16

Dentisty

5.5

36

8.8

12

Forest Resources

2.5

16

3.7

5

Medicine

60.4

392

25.7

35

Ocean-Fishery Sci

2.0

13

3.7

5

Nursing

5.4

35

12.5

17

Bioengineering

1.1

7

   

Pharmacy

4.1

20

3.7

5

Interschool

   

5.1

7

Public Health

9.2

60

14.7

20

 

Social Work

1.7

11

10.3

14

Total

14.6

95

24.3

33

Total

85.4

554

75.7

103


A. Databases used on a regular basis (% of respondents marking use of each database)

Database

Faculty

Graduate/Professional students

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

Medline-UW

95.1

89.1

63.2

90.0

97.2

90.3

54.5

85.2

Medline-NLM

28.5

13.0

11.6

25.0

19.7

16.1

12.1

17.0

Current Contents

21.3

21.7

35.8

23.4

19.7

29.0

36.4

25.9

Biosis

1.2

 

36.8

6.2

5.6

 

24.2

9.6

Agricola

 

 

18.9

2.8

2.8

 

9.1

3.7

ASFA

0.2

 

21.1

3.2

2.8

 

18.2

5.9

Bioethicsline

1.6

 

1.1

1.4

 

3.2

 

0.7

Dissertation Abs

0.6

23.9

7.4

3.2

1.4

16.1

9.1

6.7

EMBASE

3.1

2.2

2.1

2.9

7.0

19.4

 

8.1

HealthSTAR

4.5

19.6

 

4.9

19.7

41.9

3.0

20.7

Lexis-Nexis

2.2

 

1.1

1.8

1.4

9.7

6.1

4.4

Life Sciences

3.9

2.2

28.4

7.4

7.0

6.5

30.3

12.6

NTIS

0.2

 

2.1

0.5

1.4

 

3.0

1.5

Nursing & AH

3.0

65.2

3.2

7.4

7.0

61.3

6.1

19.3

PsychInfo

6.9

63.0

16.8

12.2

2.8

54.8

21.2

19.3

Science Citation

5.3

10.9

21.1

8.0

4.2

6.5

27.3

10.4

Social Sci Cit

3.1

34.8

5.3

5.7

1.4

35.5

9.1

11.1

Social Work

1.2

32.6

2.1

3.5

2.8

48.4

6.1

14.1

Sociofile

0.2

15.2

1.1

1.4

 

32.3

3.0

8.1

Tree

 

 

8.4

1.2

 

 

3.0

0.7

Zool Record

 

 

14.7

2.2

1.4

 

18.2

5.2


B. Importance of Bib Search Features (% of respondents marking 4 or 5 on scale of 1 to 5)

Search Feature

Faculty

Graduate/Professional students

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

Multiple Database

53.0

63.0

46.3

52.7

66.2

80.6

66.7

69.7

Related terms

63.4

60.9

52.6

61.6

71.8

80.6

69.7

71.1

Previous sets

41.1

52.2

38.9

44.4

56.3

58.1

45.4

54.1

Sort

46.5

52.2

45.3

46.7

52.1

41.9

45.4

48.1

UW holdings

65.9

89.1

72.6

68.6

90.1

74.2

78.8

83.7

Link to full text

69.3

78.3

51.6

67.3

76.1

87.1

63.6

75.6

Link to related art

57.9

80.4

53.7

58.9

73.2

71.0

75.8

73.3

Email DB updates

39.8

56.5

22.1

38.4

31.0

41.9

30.3

33.3


C. Bibliographic Citation Manager Use (Percentage of respondents marking each category)

Citation Manager

Faculty

Graduate/Professional students

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

HSCI

Nurs/SW

Other

Total

EndNote

42.1

19.6

49.5

41.6

16.7

25.8

27.3

21.3

Ref Manager

13.0

10.9

5.3

11.7

2.8

   

1.5

ProCite

3.0

6.5

3.2

3.2

1.4

   

0.7

Papyrus

0.8

2.2

4.2

1.4

2.8

3.2

3.0

2.9

Other

3.0

2.2

2.1

2.8

       

None

32.3

45.6

32.6

33.3

61.1

58.1

63.6

60.3


  • Funding of full-text. Agreement with funding options listed below
  • (% of respondents marking 4 or 5 – strongly agree - on scale of 1 to 5)

    Funding option

    Faculty

    Graduate/Professional students

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    Cancel lesser used print

    26.6

    37.0

    24.2

    27.0

    18.1

    22.6

    18.2

    19.1

    Cancel duplicate print

    54.5

    60.9

    61.0

    55.9

    55.6

    64.5

    48.5

    55.9

    Cancel print equivalent

    34.8

    39.1

    34.7

    35.1

    44.4

    51.6

    15.2

    38.9

    Place fewer new print

    24.6

    13.0

    14.7

    22.3

    16.7

    19.4

    15.2

    16.9

    New subs only to elec

    34.3

    26.1

    37.9

    34.2

    41.7

    48.4

    27.3

    39.7

    Buy fewer books

    18.9

    6.5

    8.4

    16.5

    15.3

    12.9

    12.1

    14.0

    Lic fewer databases

    17.3

    13.0

    10.5

    16.0

    13.9

    15.2

    3.0

    11.9

    Pay per use

    24.4

    21.7

    25.3

    24.3

    16.7

    22.6

    27.3

    23.5


    E. How quickly are journal articles needed? (% of respondents marking each category)

    Most often needed

    Faculty

    Graduate/Professional students

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    4 hours

    16.1

    8.7

    18.9

    16.0

    25.0

    25.8

    27.3

    25.8

    5-24 hours

    23.8

    21.7

    24.2

    23.7

    27.8

    16.1

    21.2

    23.5

    1-2 days

    26.2

    26.1

    25.3

    26.0

    25.0

    29.0

    42.4

    30.1

    3-4 days

    8.8

    15.2

    17.9

    1.4

    8.3

    6.5

    15.2

    9.6

    More than 4 days

     

    13.0

    13.7

    9.6

    5.6

    6.5

    12.1

    7.2


    F. Scientific/Numeric database importance (% of respondents marking somewhat or more important)

    Num. DB import.

    Faculty

    Graduate/Professional students

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    FDRx

    8.9

    6.4

    2.1

    7.7

    5.6

    22.6

     

    8.1

    Micromedex

    11.6

    6.4

     

    9.6

    15.3

    25.8

    3.0

    14.7

    Molecular Seq

    21.7

     

    20.0

    19.9

    9.7

     

    24.2

    11.0

    OMIM

    6.3

    4.3

    5.3

    6.0

    6.9

       

    3.7

    Geospatial

    1.8

    8.7

    12.6

    3.9

    2.8

    6.5

    9.1

    5.1

    Human population

    10.2

    34.8

    8.4

    11.7

    12.5

    29.0

    9.1

    15.4

    Animal/plant dist

    0.8

     

    15.8

    2.9

     

    3.2

    24.2

    6.6


    G. Library Specialized Services

    Research Funding Service (% marking use for each service) 

    Services

    Faculty

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    Research Funding

    39.6

    32.6

    14.7

    35.4

    Web Site

    33.5

    30.4

    16.8

    30.8

    Funding Bulletin

    39.4

    26.1

    7.4

    33.7

    Grant $ lunch

    19.3

    15.2

    4.2

    16.8

    Individal appt.

    17.9

    26.1

    5.3

    16.8


    Grant and Funding Information Service (% marking use for each service)

    Services

    Faculty

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    Grant & Funding

    7.5

    8.7

    7.4

    7.6

    Web Site

    7.1

    10.9

    6.3

    7.2

    Funding Funding

    2.8

    8.7

    3.2

    3.2

    Database search

    4.5

    8.7

    5.3

    4.9

    Individal appt.

    1.8

    6.5

    3.2

    2.3


    Biological Research Funding Service (% marking use for each service)

    Services

    Faculty

    Graduate/Professional students

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    Bio Research

    9.6

    6.5

    8.4

    9.2

    18.1

    22.6

    15.2

    18.4

    Bioinform. Cons.

    3.9

    4.3

     

    3.4

    2.8

    3.2

     

    2.2

    Bioinform class

    2.0

     

    1.1

    1.7

    2.8

    6.5

     

    2.9

    Sequencer Key

    4.1

    4.3

    2.1

    3.9

     

    3.2

    3.0

    1.5

    Web page

    13.2

    4.3

    5.3

    11.4

    16.7

    9.7

    18.2

    15.4


    I. Additional new services (percent of respondents marking each category)

    New services

    Faculty

    Graduate/Professional students

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    HSCI

    Nurs/SW

    Other

    Total

    Color printing

    35.2

    24.1

    43.2

    35.7

    43.1

    41.9

    54.5

    45.6

    Journal scanning

    39.8

    45.7

    33.7

    39.3

    48.6

    71.0

    42.4

    52.2

    Custom Webpage

    30.5

    37.0

    27.4

    30.5

    34.7

    32.3

    39.4

    36.8

    User article purch.

    16.3

    13.0

    20.0

    16.6

    15.3

    35.5

    21.2

    21.3

    Dist course software

    24.8

    43.5

    32.6

    27.3

    54.2

    67.7

    30.3

    51.5