Printed periodicals in CERN Library
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There is a strong demand for offices close to the central area and the CERN management is looking at many solutions to increase the offer available. One of these solutions concerns the Library and the periodical reading room. A new set of offices will be built where the paper periodicals are stored and part of these will be moved to a nearby store, easily accessible by the Library staff on user request. The space taken from the Library will be fully compensated by a new verandah to be built in the garden linked to the reading room. This new reading room is expected to offer a better and more modern use of the available library space (indoor/outdoor). The advantage to the Organization is obviously that we will create more working places in an inspiring environment while the disadvantage is that some physical material will have to be moved to the nearby stockroom. In this context one shall also remember that two years ago, the Library stopped most paper subscriptions. The transition to electronic only has been well received by a large majority of library users.

In order to best gauge what journals should be kept in the Library, we are seeking for your input.

We thank you in advance for your answer to this questionnaire, it will take no more than 10 minutes.

Thomas Pettersson, Head of GS Department

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1. How often do you use the CERN Library?

 DailyWeeklyMonthlyOnce a yearNever
Physically (e.g. picking up a book, browsing journals, working in the reading room)
Online (e.g. searching for a reference, consulting a paper, checking out an eBook)

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2. What kind of journals do you usually read in their paper version?

3. Please give a list of periodicals you read on paper in the Library during the last 12 months

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4. What is your preferred medium for accessing peer- review journals?

5. What does your non-preferred medium offer better than your preferred medium?

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6. Do you access the back files of a journal in electronic form when it exists?

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7. Do you use the new proxy service to access electronic journals when you are outside CERN (http://library.web.cern.ch/library/Library/remote.html)

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8. If some paper journals will have to be transfered to a nearby stockroom (material can be retrieved within 5 minutes during working hours) and only a core "historical" paper collection can be maintained in the reading room, what collection would you keep?

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9. Please explain your answer to the previous question

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10. For journals without an online equivalent, which scenario do you prefer?

11. For how many years have you been working in particle physics?

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12. How many months per year do you spend at CERN, in average?

13. In which domain are you working?

14. Please give us your email address in case you would like be informed of the results of this survey

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