Zoological Record User Survey - Product Development

Zoological Record: User Survey - Product Development

You can have a voice in the future development of Zoological Record!

Please share your feedback with our product development team on what we can do to continuously improve Zoological Records 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 Zoological Record in your literature searches

Never heard of

Not very important

Somewhat important

Very Important

Most important - I use Zoological Record almost exclusively

Never heard of

Not very important

Somewhat important

Very Important

Most important - I use Zoological Record almost exclusively

What other sources of information do you use?

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* 4. What is your level of proficiency with Zoological Records

Basic

Intermediate

Expert

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* 5. How often do you use Zoological Records 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 Zoological Record 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 Zoological Record 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. Do you always know the Latin name of an animal or animal group, for a search? If not, how do you identify the organism name?

Rarely

Some times

Half of the time

Most of the time

Always

Rarely

Some times

Half of the time

Most of the time

Always

How else do you identify the organism name?

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* 14. How well does the level of geographical detail in indexing suit your needs?

Clear

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

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

Yes

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

Name

Company

City/Town

State/Province

Country

Email Address

Phone Number