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Feasibility Study of the Electronic Deposition of Full-Text Grey Literature Documents

Appendix 2 : Survey Results


Questionnaire processing statistics

  1. ,
  2. Questionnaires:

    Sent                                         300
    Received                                     136           45.3%
    
  3. Coverage
  4. East Europe' (outside USSR)                  18            13%
    Asia' (outside USSR)                         12            9%
    Former Soviet Union                          106           78%
    
  5. Post SU coverage
  6. East Europe (outside Russia)                 48            36%
    Asia (outside Russia)                        21            15%
    Russia                                       67            49%
    
  7. Collections.
  8. Total                                        110 mln items,
                                                 120 ths periodicals
    

    Breakdown by subjects, %%

    Physical Sciences & Mathematics Technology Life Sciences Health Sciences
    18% 53% 22% 7%

    Grey literature documents, breakdown, %%

    reports theses patents other (specify)
    12% 21% 53% 16%
  9. Users.
  10. Total visits per year                        8 747 000
    

    Breakdown ( %% )

    Students Researchers Specialists Others
    34 15 36 15
  11. Technical awareness (items in average)
  12. PC LAN CD readers/drives Scanners Desk Top Publishing
    19.5 0.9 2.2 0.4
  13. Staff awareness for CD service, in %%
  14. Needs training Satisfactory Good
    48% 26 26
  15. Enduser awareness, in %%
  16. Needs training Satisfactory Good
    65% 23% 12%
  17. Availability of CD at your library/institution, in %%
  18. Bad Satisfactory Good
    41% 32% 27%
  19. Are you satisfied with CD-publications market, in %%
  20. No Yes
    67% 33%
  21. Plan to start deposition of electronic documents, in %%
  22. No Not yet Yes
    7% 31% 62%
  23. Up to what cost, would you consider a full-text CD-ROM of grey literature acceptable, in %%
  24. only if it was available free                48%
    up to $ 3000                                 42%
    up to $ 10 000                               4%
    more than $ 10 000                           2%
    money is not a problem                       4%
    
  25. Obstacles to participation in such a project, in %% (more 1 answer was possible):
  26. insufficient staff                           47%
    insufficient equipment                       61%
    lack of technical expertise/support          38%
    other                                        25%
    
  27. Would you prefer that the full-text CD-ROM be arranged by
  28. country                                      14%
    subject                                      86%
    
  29. Your opinion of the usefulness of a full-text CD-ROM of grey literature?
  30. important                                    51%
    somewhat important                           49%
    not important                                0%
    

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