BIOSIS User Survey - Product Development

BIOSIS: User Survey - Product Development

You can have a voice in the future development of BIOSIS!

Please share your feedback with our product development team on what we can do to continuously improve BIOSIS to meet your needs now and in the future.

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* 1. What type of Institution are you a part of?

Corporate

Academic

Museum

Government

Medical

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What is your role?

Librarian

Researcher

Information Specialist

Research Director

Student

Faculty

Other (please specify)

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* 3. How important is BIOSIS in your literature searches

Never heard of

Not very important

Somewhat important

Very Important

Most important - I use BIOSIS almost exclusively

Never heard of

Not very important

Somewhat important

Very Important

Most important - I use BIOSIS almost exclusively

What other sources of information do you use?

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* 4. What is your level of proficiency with BIOSIS

Basic

Intermediate

Expert

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* 5. How often do you use BIOSIS in your research?

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly

Once a year/ad hoc

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* 6. How successful are you in finding the information you are looking for in BIOSIS and determining relevancy?

Not successful

Always successful

Not successful

Always successful

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* 7. How important is non English language material and non English language as searchable content

Not important

Most important

Not important

Most important

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* 8. How important are society publications, local natural history journals and non journal publications to you?

Not important

Very important

Not important

Very important

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* 9. How useful are the online thesauri for identifying appropriate controlled terms to set context and refine your search? Would other search aids be useful (specify)

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* 10. How do you limit the context of a search? (Indicate as many as apply)

Use online thesaurus to add terms to set context

Use fields to limit to a particular context

Other (please specify)

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* 11. How would you rate the quality of BIOSIS indexing in allowing you to locate search results?

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 12. Are there areas of indexing which do not meet your needs (specify)

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* 13. How well does CAS registry number serve your needs?

Not at all

Very well

Not at all

Very well

Do you use other chemical identifiers such as INCHI (specify)

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* 14. How important are chemical structures to you?

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 15. Which of these term types (fields) do you find most useful when searching BIOSIS (indicate all which you would like to search specifically).

Geographical

Time period

Chemicals and Drugs

Diseases

Parts, structures and anatomy

Methods & equipment

Organism

Sequence data

Gene name

Are there other term types you would find useful? (specify)

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* 16. May we follow up to discuss more details to guide future development?

Yes

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* 17. Please enter your contact information so we can get in touch.

Name

Company

City/Town

State/Province

Country

Email Address

Phone Number