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Knovel trial feedback - Heriot-Watt University March 2015

Thank you on behalf of Heriot-Watt University and Elsevier for taking the time to evaluate Knovel as an information resource and problem solving tool for your teaching, research and/or coursework.

Now that we are reaching the end of the trial period, we would greatly appreciate your feedback by taking just a few minutes to answer the following questions. This will help the university to evaluate Knovel as a potential resource for teaching, research and student coursework.
1.What is your name, department and job role at Heriot-Watt University?(Required.)
2.Did you use the trial of Knovel for a specific course or research project?(Required.)
3.What do you like about Knovel? What is its most useful feature?(Required.)
4.If you could change one thing in Knovel, what would it be?(Required.)
5.Please rate the following statements in terms of your experience so far in using Knovel.(Required.)
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neither Agree nor Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Knovel could save me time in my day to day activities
Students could use Knovel as a valuable library of engineering and technical information
Researchers could use Knovel as a valuable library of engineering and technical information
Knovel is an improvement on my current ways of finding specific data on materials and properties
Students would find the interactive content in Knovel, such as graphs and equations, very engaging and helpful
I could incorporate Knovel into my teaching
Knovel is an improvement on my current ways of finding reference information for Engineering, Materials, Science and/or Design courses, such as browsing books or searching the internet (Google etc)
Knovel could be a great problem solving tool for student coursework and projects
Knovel could be a good way of giving access to course textbooks
6.Would you like to continue using Knovel once the trial is completed?(Required.)
7.Knovel brings together information and interactive data from over 120 different publishers, institutes and societies. An annual subscription to this service for the university is likely cost between £8,000 and £20,000 depending on whether some or all of the available content is included. Do you think Information Services should consider Knovel for possible future purchase?(Required.)