Detailed Figures to Part II: Functionality of the EULER System

Relevance: 
1: very important (highly favourable opinion) 
2: important (favourable opinion)  
3: no opinion 
4: unimportant (unfavourable opinion) 
5: not very important (highly unfavourable opinion)
 

1. What Use Would You Make of a One-Stop Information System as Described in the Introduction?

Searching items for verification of citations 
Total answers:  126 (on  126 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 39 (31%) 
B) 2/important: 32 (25%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 31 (25%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 16 (13%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (6%) 
 
Searching items to get the document  
Total answers: 126 (on  126 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 79 (63%) 
B) 2/important: 35 (28%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 10 (8%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 1 (1%) 
E) 5/not very important: 1 (1%) 
 
Get an overview of the literature in some field  
Total answers: 127 (on  127 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 64 (50%) 
B) 2/important: 40 (31%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 17 (13%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 4 (3%) 
E) 5/not very important: 2 (2%) 
 
Get an overview of the publication activities of single authors 
Total answers: 126 (on  126 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 40 (32%) 
B) 2/important: 40 (32%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 30 (24%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 13 (10%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%) 
 
Keep up-to-date with developments in special areas  
Total answers:  124 (on  124 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 42 (34%) 
B) 2/important: 54 (44%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 15 (12%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 10 (8%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%) 
 
Other 
Total answers: 9 (on  9 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 6 (67%) 
B) 2/important: 0 (0%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 0 (0%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 0 (0%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (33%) 

 

The graphic below show the ranking of the different use of a one-step information system

 
A) searching items for verification of citations: 39 (31% of 126 answers in that question) 
B) searching items to get the document: 79 (63% of 126 answers in that question) 
C) get an overview of the literature in some field: 64 (50% of 127 answers in that question) 
D) get an overview of the publication activities of single authors: 40 (29% of 126 answers in that question) 
E) keep up-to-date with developments in special areas: 42 (34% of 124 answers in that question) 
F) other: 6 (67% of 9 answers in that question) 
 
 

2. What Category is Important for Your Search? What Would be Your Preferred Search Field?

Author 
Total answers: 128 (on  128 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 88 (69%) 
B) 2/important: 27 (21%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 10 (8%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 3 (2%) 
E) 5/not very important: 0 (0%) 
Title 
Total answers: 125 (on  125 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 60 (48%) 
B) 2/important: 36 (29%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 21 (17%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 5 (4%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%)
 

Classification

Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) 
Total answers: 124 (on  124 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 31 (25%) 
B) 2/important: 36 (29%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 32 (26%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 17 (14%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (6%) 
 
Other classifications  
Total answers: 22 (on  22 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 9 (41%) 
B) 2/important: 3 (14%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 0 (0%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 1 (5%) 
E) 5/not very important: 9 (41%) 
 

Keywords

Keywords 
Total answers: 124 (on  124 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 63 (51%) 
B) 2/important: 40 (32%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 15 (12%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 5 (4%) 
E) 5/not very important: 1 (1%) 
 
Type of publications (e.g. Journals, books, preprints, ...) 
Total answers: 123 (on  123 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 10 (8%) 
B) 2/important: 27 (22%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 42 (34%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 29 (24%) 
E) 5/not very important: 15 (12%) 
 
Publisher  
Total answers: 121 (on  121 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 2 (2%) 
B) 2/important: 8 (7%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 23 (19%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 41 (34%) 
E) 5/not very important: 47 (39%) 
 
Journal title  
Total answers: 125 (on  125 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 25 (20%) 
B) 2/important: 25 (20%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 40 (32%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 21 (17%) 
E) 5/not very important: 14 (11%) 
 
Date of publication  
Total answers: 124 (on  124 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 8 (6%) 
B) 2/important: 28 (23%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 41 (33%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 34 (27%) 
E) 5/not very important: 13 (10%) 
 
Other fields to be included 
Total answers: 17 (on  17 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 9 (53%) 
B) 2/important: 2 (12%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 2 (12%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 0 (0%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (24%)
 
 

Below there is a graphic showing all mentioned field i.e. author, title, classification, keywords etc. together with the noting of "very important (very favourable)

 
 
A) Author: 88 (69% of 128 answers in that question) 
B) Title: 60 (48% of 125 answers in that question) 
Classification: 
C) MSC: 31 (25% of 124 answers in that question) 
D) other: 9 (41% of 22 answers in that question) 
E) Keywords: 63 (51% of 124 answers in that question) 
F) Type of publication: 10 (8% of 123 answers in that question) 
G) Publisher: 2 (2% of 121 answers in that question) 
H) Journal title: 25 (20% of 125 answers in that question) 
I) Date of publication: 8 (6% of 124 answers in that question) 
J) Other fields to be included: 9 (53% of 17 answers in that question) 
 

3. What Form of Search and Navigation Would You Prefer / Should be Selected?

  

Searching the database

One line simple search in all fields  
Total answers: 114 (on  114 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 26 (23%) 
B) 2/important: 33 (29%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 29 (25%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 15 (13%) 
E) 5/not very important: 11 (10%) 
 
Menu driven multi-field search (e.g. author, title,...)  
Total answers: 123 (on  123 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 84 (68%) 
B) 2/important: 30 (24%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 5 (4%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 2 (2%) 
E) 5/not very important: 2 (2%) 
 

Features for menu-driven multi-field search

Selectable truncation 
Total answers: 97 (on  97 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 40 (41%) 
B) 2/important: 37 (38%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 10 (10%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 6 (6%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (4%) 
 
"wild cards"  
Total answers: 101 (on  101 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 61 (60%) 
B) 2/important: 25 (25%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 9 (9%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 3 (3%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (3%) 
 
clickable boolean operators 
Total answers: 107 (on  107 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 51 (48%) 
B) 2/important: 28 (26%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 15 (14%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 5 (5%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (7%) 
 
proximity functions 
Total answers: 99 (on  99 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 24 (24%) 
B) 2/important: 28 (28%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 27 (27%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 12 (12%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (8%) 
 
command language interface 
Total answers: 96 (on  96 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 14 (15%) 
B) 2/important: 20 (21%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 28 (29%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 23 (24%) 
E) 5/not very important: 11 (11%) 
 
 

Browsing through different database fields

Index of author names  
Total answers: 117 (on  117 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 52 (45%) 
B) 2/important: 33 (28%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 18 (15%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 13 (11%) 
E) 5/not very important: 0 (0%) 
Navigate through the classifications system tree 
Total answers:  115 (on  115 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 38 (33%) 
B) 2/important: 28 (24%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 30 (26%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 15 (13%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (3%) 
Title index  
Total answers: 115 (on  115 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 29 (25%) 
B) 2/important: 40 (35%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 29 (25%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 13 (11%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (3%) 
Keywords  
Total answers: 120 (on  120 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 48 (40%) 
B) 2/important: 38 (32%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 24 (20%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 5 (4%) 
E) 5/not very important: 5 (4%) 
Other browsing fields 
Total answers: 16 (on  16 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 3 (19%) 
B) 2/important: 3 (19%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 2 (13%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 0 (0%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (50%) 
 

Below there is a graphic showing all questioned forms of search and navigation with the rating of the first possible choice: most important (very favourable)

 
 
Searching in the database 
A) One line simple search in all fields: 26 (23% of 114 answers in that question) 
B) Menu driven multi-field search: 84 (68% of 123 answers in that question) 
Features for menu-driven multi-field search 
C) Selectable Truncation: 40 (41% of 97 answers in that question) 
D) "wild cards": 61 (60% of 101 answers in that question) 
E) Clickable boolean operators: 51 (48% of 107 answers in that question) 
F) Proximity functions: 24 (24% of 99 answers in that question) 
G) Command language interface: 14 (15% of 96 answers in that question) 
Browsing through different database fields 
H) Index of author names: 52 (45% of 117 answers in that question) 
I) Navigate through the classifications system tree: 38 (33% of 115 answers in that question) 
J) Title index: 29 (25% of 115 answers in that question) 
K) Keywords: 48 (40% of 120 answers in that question) 
L) Other browsing fields: 3 (19% of 16 answers in that question) 
 

4. What Information Sources Would Be Important For You?

Bibliographic databases 
Total answers: 125 (on  125 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 84 (67%) 
B) 2/important: 12 (17%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 14 (11%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 3 (2%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%) 
Online library catalogues and databases (OPACs)  
Total answers:  124 (on  124 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 50 (40%) 
B) 2/important: 37 (30%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 24 (19%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 11 (9%) 
E) 5/not very important: 2 (2%) 
E-journals 
Total answers: 125 (on  125 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 56 (45%) 
B) 2/important: 38 (30%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 25 (20%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 3 (2%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%)
Preprints  
Total answers: 127 (on  127 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 62 (49%) 
B) 2/important: 31 (24%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 21 (17%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 10 (8%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (2%) 
Proceedings  
Total answers: 126 (on  126 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 47 (37%) 
B) 2/important: 32 (25%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 31 (25%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 12 (10%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (3%) 
Others 
Total answers: 14 (on  14 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 8 (57%) 
B) 2/important: 1 (8%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 1 (8%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 0 (0%) 
E) 5/not very important: 4 (29%) 
 

 

The graphic below show the ranking of information sources (highly important)

 
A) Bibliographic databases: 84 (67% of 125 answers in that question) 
B) Online library catalogues and databases (OPACs): 50 (40% of 124 answers in that question) 
C) E-journals: 56 (45% of 125 answers in that question) 
D) Preprints: 62 (49% of 127 answers in that question) 
E) Proceedings: 47 (37% of 126 answers in that question) 
F) Others: 8 (57% of 14 answers in that question) 
 

5. Would It Be Important to Restrict Search on Specific Resource Types (E.g. Preprint, E-journal, ...)?

Total answers: 128 (on  128 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 21 (16%) 
B) 2/important: 35 (27%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 38 (30%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 22 (17%) 
E) 5/not very important: 12 (9%) 
 

6. Would it Be Important to Restrict Search on Specific Information Providers (Libraries, Institutions, ...)?

Total answers: 128 (on  128 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 17 (13%) 
B) 2/important: 24 (19%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 35 (27%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 25 (20%) 
E) 5/not very important: 27 (21%) 
 

7. Please Indicate Your Preferences Regarding Result Presentation 

How important would be a "Refine Search" menu on the result display screen? 
Total answers: 123 (on  123 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 47 (38%) 
B) 2/important: 42 (34%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 28 (23%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 5 (4%) 
E) 5/not very important: 1 (1%) 
How important would be selectable sorting by different fields? 
Total answers: 121 (on  121 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 34 (28%) 
B) 2/important: 42 (35%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 33 (27%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 12 (10%) 
E) 5/not very important: 0 (0%) 
How important would be sorting by automatic relevance ranking? 
Total answers: 113 (on  113 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 16 (14%) 
B) 2/important: 35 (31%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 37 (33%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 17 (15%) 
E) 5/not very important: 8 (7%) 
Should long and short (e.g. only author, title) result display lists be selected?  
Total answers: 113 (on  113 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 39 (35%) 
B) 2/important: 54 (48%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 15 (13%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 2 (2%) 
E) 5/not very important: 3 (3%) 

Below there is a graphic showing all questions to result representation with the rating of very important (highly favourable opinion):

 
A) "Refine Search" menu: 47 (38% of 123 answers in that question) 
B) selectable sorting by different fields: 34 (28% of 121 answers in that question) 
C) sorting by automatic relevance ranking: 16 (14% of 113 answers in that question) 
D) selectable long and short lists: 39 (35% of 113 answers in that question) 
 
 

9. How Important Would Be Multilingual Features in the User Interface?

Total answers: 127 (on  127 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 13 (10%) 
B) 2/important: 13 (10%) 
A) 3: 21 (17%) 
A) 4/unimportant: 31 (24%) 
A) 5/not very important: 49 (39%) 
 

10. If You are in Favour of Multilingual Features, Where Do You Expect Them? Please Rank 1: Very Desirable to 5/Not Very Important: Not at All Needed 

Main menu 
Total answers: 64 (on  64 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 18 (28%) 
B) 2/important: 8 (13%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 14 (22%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 8 (13%) 
E) 5/not very important: 16 (25%) 
Search interface 
Total answers: 61 (on  61 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 11 (18%) 
B) 2/important: 11 (18%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 13 (21%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 10 (10%) 
E) 5/not very important: 16 (16%) 
Help texts  
Total answers:  61 (on  61 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 16 (26%) 
B) 2/important: 8 (13%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 13 (21%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 6 (10%) 
E) 5/not very important: 18 (30%) 
Classification  
Total answers: 58 (on  58 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 6 (10%) 
B) 2/important: 7 (12%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 13 (22%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 13 (22%) 
E) 5/not very important: 19 (33%) 
Thesaurus  
Total answers: 57 (on  57 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 11 (19%) 
B) 2/important: 7 (12%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 15 (26%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 10 (18%) 
E) 5/not very important: 14 (25%) 
Others 
Total answers: 12 (on  12 completed forms) 
A) 1/very important: 2 (17%) 
B) 2/important: 1 (8%) 
C) 3/no opinion: 0 (0%) 
D) 4/unimportant: 0 (0%) 
E) 5/not very important: 9 (75%) 

Below there is a graphic showing all questioned to multilingual feature in the user interface with the rating of very important (highly favourable opinion):

 
A) Main menu: 18 (28% of 64 answers in that question) 
B) Search interface: 11 (18% of 61 answers in that question) 
C) Help texts: 16 (26% of 61 answers in that question) 
D) Classification: 6 (10% of 58 answers in that question) 
E) Thesaurus: 11 (19% of 57 answers in that question) 
F) Other: 2 (17% of 12 answers in that question)