NYAS eBriefings Survey

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We would greatly appreciate your feedback about New York Academy of Sciences eBriefings. Please complete this 20-question survey to help us provide you and your peers with better content and functionality. Responding should take under five minutes. To enter the drawing, please complete all of the questions below and include your contact information. Winners will be drawn from all survey respondents approximately one week after the survey has closed. Winners will be notified via e-mail. For complete rules, visit http://www.nyas.org/rules.

1. Which of the following eBriefing components did you use or find valuable?
(Please check all that apply.)

Which of the following eBriefing components did you use or find valuable? (Please check all that apply.) Written meeting summary

Synchronized slide/audio player

Video interviews (if available)

Abstracts (if available)

Open Questions

Links to journal articles and other related resources

Speaker bios and contact information

2. How many eBriefings did you view in the past year?

How many eBriefings did you view in the past year? More than 25

15-25

5-14

1-4

3. How do you keep up-to-date with new NYAS eBriefings?
(Please check all that apply)

How do you keep up-to-date with new NYAS eBriefings? (Please check all that apply) Browsing the NYAS Web site

Attending NYAS events

Membership materials or articles in the New York Academy of Sciences Magazine

E-mail alerts or other promotional materials

RSS feeds

Recommendation by professor or professional contact

Other (please specify)

4. How would you rate NYAS eBriefings?
(1 being the lowest; 5 being the highest)

	1	2	3	4	5
Ease of navigation	How would you rate NYAS eBriefings? (1 being the lowest; 5 being the highest) Ease of navigation 1	2	3	4	5
Quality of written meeting summaries	Quality of written meeting summaries 1	2	3	4	5
Usefulness of slides/audio/video	Usefulness of slides/audio/video 1	2	3	4	5
Usefulness of abstracts	Usefulness of abstracts 1	2	3	4	5
Usefulness of open questions	Usefulness of open questions 1	2	3	4	5
Usefulness of links to articles and related resources	Usefulness of links to articles and related resources 1	2	3	4	5
Usefulness of speaker bios and contact information	Usefulness of speaker bios and contact information 1	2	3	4	5

5. Which of the following best describes how closely the eBriefings you have viewed are related to your primary scientific field of interest?

Which of the following best describes how closely the eBriefings you have viewed are related to your primary scientific field of interest? I have viewed eBriefings only in my primary field of interest.

I have viewed eBriefings in my primary field of interest, but also in other related fields.

Although there are some eBriefings in my primary field of interest, I have mostly viewed eBriefings in other fields.

There are no eBriefings available in my primary field of interest.

6. What is your primary reason for using NYAS eBriefings?

What is your primary reason for using NYAS eBriefings? They are the next best thing to attending meetings or conferences that I missed.

They let me review meetings that I attended and share information with colleagues.

They provide unique information I can’t find in other places.

They provide interesting overviews of fields I’m not familiar with.

Other (please specify)

7. How much time do you usually spend reading/viewing an eBriefing?

How much time do you usually spend reading/viewing an eBriefing? More than 2 hours

1-2 hours

30 minutes to 1 hour

15-30 minutes

Less than 15 minutes

8. Typically, it takes NYAS approximately 6-8 weeks from an event date to publish a complete eBriefing. Is this amount of time acceptable to you, considering the amount of resources that each eBriefing contains?

Typically, it takes NYAS approximately 6-8 weeks from an event date to publish a complete eBriefing. Is this amount of time acceptable to you, considering the amount of resources that each eBriefing contains? Yes

If no, please explain.

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1. Which of the following eBriefing components did you use or find valuable? (Please check all that apply.)