4. What Sort of Electronic Information
System Do You Use Today? How Often Do You Use These Different Forms?
Frequency: 1: one or more times
a day
2: one or more times
a week
3: one or more times
a month
4: less than above
5: never / not available
Relevance: 1: highly important
to your work
2: important to your
work
3: undecidedable important
to your work
4: unimportant to your
work
5: not at all important
to your work
For an unified presentation
letters were used for the graphs.
General
Frequency of general internet
services Total answers: 129 (on 129 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 109 (84%)
B) 2/week: 12 (9%)
C) 3/month: 8 (6%)
D) 4/less: 0 (0%)
E) 5/never: 0 (0%)
Relevance of general internet
services Total answers: 129 (on 129 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 78 (61%)
B) 2/important: 33 (26%)
C) 3/no opinion: 16 (13%)
D) 4/unimportant: 1 (1%)
E) 5/not at all important: 0 (0%)
Frequency and relevance
of general internet services
Frequency of WWW Total answers: 130 (on 130 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 100 (77%)
B) 2/week: 24 (18%)
C) 3/month: 5 (4%)
D) 4/less: 1 (1%)
E) 5/never: 0 (0%)
Relevance of WWW Total answers: 130 (on 130 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 69 (53%)
B) 2/important: 41 (32%)
C) 3/no opinion: 17 (13%)
D) 4/unimportant: 1 (1%)
E) 5/not at all important: 1 (1%)
Frequency and relevance
of WWW
Frequency of internet search
engines Total answers: 127 (on 127 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 47 (37%)
B) 2/week: 50 (39%)
C) 3/month:22 (17%)
D) 4/less: 5 (4%)
E) 5/never: 3 (2%)
Relevance of internet search
engines Total answers: 124 (on 124 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 34 (37%)
B) 2/important:41 (33%)
C) 3/no opinion:31 (25%)
D) 4/unimportant: 6 (5%)
E) 5/not at all important: 4 (3%)
Frequency and relevance
of internet search engines
Frequency of other online
access Total answers: 31 (on 31 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 8 (20%)
B) 2/week: 6 (20%)
C) 3/month: 7 (23%)
D) 4/less: 1 (3%)
E) 5/never: 9 (29%)
Relevance of other online
access Total answers: 30 (on 30 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 14 (47%)
B) 2/important: 3 (10%)
C) 3/no opinion: 3 (10%)
D) 4/unimportant: 1 (3%)
E) 5/not at all important: 9 (30%)
Frequency and relevance
of other online access
Bibliographic and Reference Databases
Frequency library online
catalogues Total answers: 129 (on 129 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 29 (22%)
B) 2/week: 44 (34%)
C) 3/month: 33 (26%)
D) 4/less: 14 (11%)
E) 5/never: 9 (7%)
Relevance of library online
catalogues Total answers: 128 (on 128 completed
forms)
A) 1/highly important: 55 (43%)
B) 2/important: 39 (30%)
C) 3/no opinion: 16 (13%)
D) 4/unimportant: 9 (7%)
E) 5/not at all important: 9 (7%)
Frequency and relevance
of library online catalogues
Frequency of bibliographic
databases (e.g.. MathSciNet, CompuMath, Zentralblatt / MATH) Total answers: 128 (on 128 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 23 (18%)
B) 2/week: 44 (34%)
C) 3/month: 32 (25%)
D) 4/less: 15 (12%)
E) 5/never: 14 (11%)
Relevance of bibliographic
databases (e.g.. MathSciNet, CompuMath, Zentralblatt / MATH) Total answers: 127 (on 127 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 69 (54%)
B) 2/important: 25 (20%)
C) 3/no opinion: 19 (15%)
D) 4/unimportant: 8 (6%)
E) 5/not at all important: 6 (5%)
Frequency and relevance
of bibliographic databases (e.g.. MathSciNet, CompuMath, Zentralblatt /
MATH)
Frequency of CD-ROM network
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 89 (on 89 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 10 (11%)
B) 2/week: 12 (13%)
C) 3/month: 8 (9%)
D) 4/less: 12 (13%)
E) 5/never: 47 (53%)
Relevance CD-ROM network
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 81 (on 81 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 16 (20%)
B) 2/important: 9 (11%)
C) 3/no opinion: 12 (15%)
D) 4/unimportant: 8 (10%)
E) 5/not at all important: 36 (44%)
Frequency and relevance
of CD-ROM network access to bibliographic and reference databases
Frequency of CD-ROM standalone
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 89 (on 89 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 3 (4%)
B) 2/week: 7 (9%)
C) 3/month: 11 (13%)
D) 4/less: 11 (13%)
E) 5/never: 50 (61%)
Relevance of CD-ROM standalone
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 74 (on 74 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 10 (14%)
B) 2/important: 10 (14%)
C) 3/no opinion: 8 (11%)
D) 4/unimportant: 7 (9%)
E) 5/not at all important: 39 (53%)
Frequency and relevance
of CD-ROM standalone access to bibliographic and reference databases
Frequency of Internet access
to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 120 (on 120 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 38 (32%)
B) 2/week: 40 (33%)
C) 3/month: 28 (23%)
D) 4/less: 11 (9%)
E) 5/never: 3 (3%)
Relevance of Internet access
to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 117 (on 117 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 70 (60%)
B) 2/important: 26 (22%)
C) 3/no opinion: 18 (15%)
D) 4/unimportant: 2 (2%)
E) 5/not at all important: 1 (1%)
Frequency and relevance
of Internet access to bibliographic and reference databases
Frequency of other online
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 53 (on 53 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 1 (2%)
B) 2/week: 4 (8%)
C) 3/month: 7 (13%)
D) 4/less: 6 (11%)
E) 5/never: 35 (66%)
Relevance of other online
access to bibliographic and reference databases Total answers: 53 (on 53 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 4 (9%)
B) 2/important: 7 (16%)
C) 3/no opinion: 4 (9%)
D) 4/unimportant: 4 (9%)
E) 5/not at all important: 26 (58%)
Frequency and relevance
of other online access to bibliographic and reference databases
Electronic full-text resources
Frequency of electronic
journals Total answers: 116 (on 116 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 6 (5%)
B) 2/week: 22 (19%)
C) 3/month: 46 (40%)
D) 4/less: 29 (25%)
E) 5/never: 13 (11%)
Relevance of electronic
journals Total answers: 115 (on 115 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 32 (28%)
B) 2/important: 37 (32%)
C) 3/no opinion: 20 (17%)
D) 4/unimportant: 18 (16%)
E) 5/not at all important: 8 (7%)
Frequency and relevance
of electronic journals
Frequency of electronic
books Total answers: 113 (on 113 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 1 (1%)
B) 2/week: 3 (3%)
C) 3/month: 30 (27%)
D) 4/less: 42 (37%)
E) 5/never: 37 (33%)
Relevance of electronic
books Total answers: 106 (on 106 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 16 (15%)
B) 2/important: 20 (19%)
C) 3/no opinion: 25 (24%)
D) 4/unimportant: 18 (17%)
E) 5/not at all important: 27 (25%)
Frequency and relevance
of electronic books
Frequency of electronic
dissertations Total answers: 109 (on 109 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 0 (0%)
B) 2/week: 2 (2%)
C) 3/month: 27 (25%)
D) 4/less: 35 (32%)
E) 5/never: 45 (41%)
Relevance of electronic
dissertations Total answers: 103 (on 103 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 14 (14%)
B) 2/important: 17 (17%)
C) 3/no opinion: 24 (23%)
D) 4/unimportant: 18 (17%)
E) 5/not at all important: 30 (29%)
Frequency and relevance
of electronic dissertations
Frequency of electronic
preprints Total answers: 121 (on 121 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 16 (13%)
B) 2/week: 27 (22%)
C) 3/month: 39 (32%)
D) 4/less: 21 (17%)
E) 5/never: 18 (15%)
Relevance of electronic
preprints Total answers: 121 (on 121 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 48 (40%)
B) 2/important: 26 (21%)
C) 3/no opinion: 22 (18%)
D) 4/unimportant: 9 (7%)
E) 5/not at all important: 16 (13%)
Frequency and relevance
of electronic preprints
Frequency of electronic
lecture notes / Conference Proceedings Total answers: 112 (on 112 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 6 (5%)
B) 2/week: 10 (9%)
C) 3/month: 40 (36%)
D) 4/less: 38 (34%)
E) 5/never: 18 (16%)
Relevance of Electronic
Lecture Notes / Conference Proceedings Total answers: 112 (on 112 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 27 (24%)
B) 2/important: 29 (26%)
C) 3/no opinion: 21 (19%)
D) 4/unimportant: 22 (20%)
E) 5/not at all important: 13 (12%)
Frequency and relevance
of electronic lecture notes / Conference Proceedings
Frequency of today electronic
delivery systems for print-only material Total answers: 103 (on 103 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 5 (5%)
B) 2/week: 11 (11%)
C) 3/month: 14 (14%)
D) 4/less: 31 (30%)
E) 5/never: 42 (41%)
Relevance of today electronic
delivery systems for print-only material Total answers: 93 (on 93 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 13 (14%)
B) 2/important: 21 (23%)
C) 3/no opinion: 13 (14%)
D) 4/unimportant: 17 (18%)
E) 5/not at all important: 29 (31%)
Frequency and relevance
of today electronic delivery systems for print-only material
Frequency of other full-text
sources on the net Total answers: 87 (on 87 completed forms)
A) 1/day: 2 (2%)
B) 2/week: 12 (14%)
C) 3/month: 15 (17%)
D) 4/less: 21 (24%)
E) 5/never: 37 (43%)
Relevance of other full-text
sources on the net Total answers: 76 (on 76 completed forms)
A) 1/highly important: 8 (11%)
B) 2/important: 12 (16%)
C) 3/no opinion: 13 (17%)
D) 4/unimportant: 18 (24%)
E) 5/not at all important: 25 (33%)
Frequency and relevance
of other full-text sources on the net
The graphic below shows the distribution
of the frequency /per day of all mentioned objects i.e. internet/WWW/search
engines etc.
General A) Internet services in general: 109 (84% of the 129 answers
in that question)
B) WWW: 100 (77% of the 130 answers in that question)
C) Internet search engines: 47 (37% of the 127 answers in that
question)
D) Other online access: 8 (26% of the 31 answers in that question)
Bibliographic and Reference Databases E) Library online catalogues: 29 (22% of the 129 answers in
that question)
F) Bibliographic databases: 23 (18% of the 128 answers in that
question)
How do you access them? G) CD-ROM Network: 10 (11% of the 89 answers in that question)
H) CD-ROM Standalone: 3 (4% of the 89 answers in that question)
I) Internet: 38 (32% of the 120 answers in that question)
J) Other online access: 1 (2% of the 53 answers in that question)
Electronic full-text resources K) Electronic journals: 6 (5% of the 116 answers in that question)
L) Electronic books: 1 (1% of the 113 answers in that question)
M) Electronic Dissertations: 0 (0% of the 109 answers in that
question)
N) Electronic Preprints: 16 (13% of the 121 answers in that
question)
O) Electronic Lecture Notes/Conference Proceedings: 6 (5% of
the 112 answers in that question)
P) Electronic delivery systems for print-only material: 5 (5%
of the 103 answers in that question)
Q) Other full-text sources on the net: 2 (2% of
the 76 answers in that question)
The graphic below shows the distribution
of the relevance especially the very important case of all mentioned objects
i.e. internet /WWW/search engines etc.
General A) Internet services in general: 78 (61% of 129 answers in that
question)
B) WWW: 69 (53% of 130 answers in that question)
C) Internet search engines: 42 (37% of 127 answers in that question)
D) Other online access: 14 (47% of 30 answers in that question)
Bibliographic and Reference Databases E) Library online catalogues: 55 (43% of 128 answers in that
question)
F) Bibliographic databases: 69 (54% of 127 answers in that question)
How do you access them? G) CD-ROM Network: 16 (20% of 81 answers in that question)
H) CD-ROM Standalone: 10 (14% of 74 answers in that question)
I) Internet: 70 (60% of 117 answers in that question)
J) Other online access: 4 (9% of 53 answers in that question)
Electronic full-text resources K) Electronic journals: 32 (28% of 115 answers in that question)
L) Electronic books: 16 (15% of 106 answers in that question)
M) Electronic Dissertations: 14 (14% of 103 answers in that
question)
N) Electronic Preprints: 48 (40% of 121 answers in that question)
O) Electronic Lecture Notes/Conference Proceedings: 27 (24%
of 112 answers in that question)
P) Electronic delivery systems for print-only material: 13 (14%
of 93 answers in that question)
Q) Other full-text sources on the net: 8 (11% of 76 answers
in that question)
