VOA3R survey
Dear VOA3R stakeholder, thank you for completing the following questionnaire which will take approximately 10 minutes.  Your feedback will act as a guide for the system design and implementation of the VOA3R platform. Questionnaire responses will be used internally and shall not be distributed to any third party.
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How would you best describe yourself? *
Please indicate your (main) faculty
Do you use specific online tools when searching for scientific information *
Please also indicate your favourites!
Never
Rarely
Weekly
Daily
Favourite
Google Scholar
Pubmed
Scirus
Scopus
Web of Science
Citeseer
arXiv
How many times have you used an online search tool?
With what frequency are you searching using online tools in contrast to other search methods (like plain web search, journal webpages)
Rarely
Often
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How often while reading a paper do you follow the references in it *
Rarely
Very often
Do you contribute your research work to portals *
Rarely
Often
Would you be interested in having the possiblity to upload additional material (ex. datasets, video lectures, exercises, asignments etc)
Probably not
Definitely yes
Clear selection
Rating and recomendation's provision
How important is it for you to be able to receive recommendations from peers prior to accessing a paper *
Not important
Highly desirable
Would you be interested in a service that provides automatic paper recommendations in the form of web-links
Not really
Very much
Clear selection
Do you consider important an option that allows rating of references
Rating should be performed according to how helpful they have been
Not much
HIghly desirable
Clear selection
Would you consider reviewing voluntarily papers that you access *
Probably never
Yes, certainly!
Do you consider important to have the opportunity to rate material you access and others to rate your material *
No, I wouldn't like that
Yes, it is very useful feature
What's your attitude towards open access *
Do you believe submission should be free for all or authors should receive some kind of endorsement
Disagree
Not sure
Probably agree
Sure!
Authors should be somehow endorsed
I mostly publish because I have to (professionally)
I publish in order to communicate my research, no need for further reimbursement
I publish in order to find colleagues, no need for further reimbursement
Should there be some process of reviewing the material prior to being published *
This question refers to the need to have some board or commitee responsible to review the material except from the public reviewing it might later receive
Not really
Definitely yes
Would you require a tool to allow bookmarking of papers and ranking of citations so that the most bookmarked papers are identified
Not really
Definitely yes
Clear selection
Do you consider useful to have a feature that harvests updates about research and provides them to you
Not essential
Highly desirable
Clear selection
Would you consider following recommendations provided by the system automatically about articles that might be of interest to you
Probably not
Yes, definitely
Clear selection
Social networking features
Would you consider registering in a scientific portal and provide personal details such as research interests *
I never register
Yes, definitely
Would you join different groups with interests similar to yours
I do not usually join groups
Definitely
Clear selection
Would you expect from an online tool to provide capabilities to
Please rate according to importance (high grade for importnace)
1
2
3
4
5
search for experts
exchange messages
find and contact individuals
join a community
Clear selection
Do you consider useful to create or extract metadata about a paper?
not really
yes, definitely
Clear selection
Do you often extract bibliographic references from a paper, or the paper itself
Not often
Very often
Clear selection
Would you ever make use of online synchronous means of interaction with a research group (ex. online discussions, video sessions, online chat)
??? +++
Probably not
I believe yes
Clear selection
Usabilty features
Do you use often Google Scholar? How important would you consider to include Google Scholar search to an online tool you access?
Rarely-not so important
Often-very important
Clear selection
How important do you consider a feature that brings up your recent searches
Note that you would have to register to the portal for such functionality
Not essential
Highly desirable
Clear selection
Does your institution provide a repository to submit research work
What objects do you search for most often?
If you use advanced search features, which of these features are you confident in using?
If you were searching for images online, which of the following would you use?
How important are the following search functionalities
Useless
Not very important
Average importance
Important
Highly important
Search for additional material like theses, dissertations
Provide search refinement options
Advanced search (by date, keywords etc)
Filter by language
ranking of results
include journal title and impact factor
provide capabilities to rank material yourself
Suuport topic based categorization
Clear selection
How often do you use advanced search features offered by search engines
Never
Very often (almost once a day)
Clear selection
Please optionally complete the following details
If you would like to be referenced and / or provide more feedback and receive updates on the VOA3R project, take the time to answer the following questions.
Your Sector of Expertise or Professional Discipline
Clear selection
Current country of residence
Please give us some info about your location
Your name
Your e-mail
Your "professional" web-pages
Indicate any public pages you maintain (e.g. on university's site, on linked-in, on CiteULike, etc.)
Affiliation and position
Your affiliation with VOA3R *
Please indicate if you have participated in any VOA3R's workshop or other event, have read through the voa3r.eu website, or any other relevance to the VOA3R project.
Would you like to be contacted for further information?
Clear selection
Would you like to be referenced in VOA3R's deliverables, reports, etc.?
Clear selection
Level of education obtained
Clear selection
Any comments
Please indicate any suggestions, comments, etc. to the VOA3R team.
Are you a librarian? *
Librarians are kindly requested to answer to a few more specific questions.
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