Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists
Part 1. Background Information
1: 1. What is your department?
	Please write your answer here:
2: 2. What is your building name?
	Please write your answer here:
3: 3. What is your position?
	Please choose only one of the following: Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Research Staff/Adjunct Post Doctoral Doctoral Student Masters Student Other
4: 4. What is your age?
	Please write your answer here:
5: 5. What is your gender?
	Please choose only one of the following: Male Female
6: 6. Do you have internet access in your office or lab?
	Please choose only one of the following: Yes No
7: 7. How far from your office is the campus library you use most often?
	Please choose only one of the following: Same building 1/4 mile 1/2 mile 1 mile or more
8: 8. In a typical week, how many hours do you spend reading information relevant to your research work?
	Please write your answer here:
9: 9. How many articles have you published in refereed journals in the last 5 years?
	Please choose only one of the following: None 1 - 3 4 - 7 8 - 12 13 - 18 19+
10: 10. Indicate the percentage of your research that is collaborative with researchers outside of your academic unit.
	Please choose only one of the following: 0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100%
Part 2. Types of Resources Used
11: 11. How often do you use web-based scientific databases (not article databases) for your research?
Examples: GenBank, ENSEMBL, TIGR, SWISSPROT, FlyBASE, ChemIDplus, EPA Envirofacts, Stuttgart Matlab	Please choose only one of the following: Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annually Never
12: 12. How often do you use the following types of resources as a primary source of information for your research?
For each item, please select one of the values on the following scale	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Never Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily Books Journals Preprints Attendance at conferences Conference proceedings Web pages Online databases Personal communications
Part 3. Keeping current
13: 13. What are the five most important individual sources (journal, web site, listserv, etc) that you read to stay current in your field? Please list the specific sources and do NOT list categories of things or database search pages, i.e. do NOT say "journal", "listserv", "database", or "pubmed", "ACM digital library", etc.
For example, Nature, Cell, Public Library of Science Biology, BioinformaticsNews (http://www.bisti.nih.gov/bistic_news.cfm), Chemical Engineering Listserv (listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu), MathNews (http://www.maa.org/news/mathnews_scinews.html), Dartmouth bioinformatics listserv (bioinformatics@listserv.dartmouth.edu).	Please write your answer(s) here: 1.: 2.: 3.: 4.: 5.:
13.1: 13.1 How often do you read X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
13.2: 13.2 How often do you read X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
13.3: 13.3 How often do you read X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
13.4: 13.4 How often do you read X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
13.5: 13.5 How often do you read X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
14: 14. Do you use any current awareness services, or alerts, to help you know when new literature becomes available that is relevant to topics that interest you? If you do, please list them in order of importance (#1 most important).
Examples: PubMed Alerts, ISI Personal Alert and Reference Update, INSPEC Current Awareness, Faculty of 1000	Please write your answer(s) here: 1.: 2.: 3.: 4.: 5.:
Part 4. Searching for Information
15: 15. What are the five most important individual tools that you use to search out information when researching? Please list your answers in order of importance (#1 most important), and indicate how often you access them.
Examples: ISI Science Citation Index, PubMed, ArticleFirst, Google, colleague, specific listserv, CiteSeer, BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts, ERIC, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, ACM Digital Library, Physics Abstract, online books (NetLibrary, Safari, StatNetBase, etc), online journal search engines (Kluwer, Link Springer, etc)	Please write your answer(s) here: 1.: 2.: 3.: 4.: 5.:
15.1: 15.1 How often do you use X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
15.2: 15.2 How often do you use X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
15.3: 15.3 How often do you use X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
15.4: 15.4 How often do you use X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
15.5: 15.5 How often do you use X?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
16: 16. In a typical month, how many articles did you retrieve to read from the following sources? Please indicate (or estimate) the number for each of the following sources. Please use numeric format (e.g. 17).
	Please write your answer(s) here: [Electronic] Personally subscribed journal: [Electronic] Lab subscribed journal: [Electronic] Library subscribed journal: [Electronic] Open Access (or free) Journal or Institutional: [Electronic] Web site (e.g., author's web site): [Electronic] Personal digital library: [Electronic] Copy of colleague's electronic copy: [Print] Personally subscribed journal: [Print] Lab subscribed journal: [Print] Library subscribed journal: [Print] Copy of colleague's print copy: [Print] Article in personal collection: Interlibrary loan: Document delivery service:
17: 17. How confident are you that you are finding everything you should on your topic?
1 = Very Not Confident, 5 = Very Confident	Please choose only one of the following 1 2 3 4 5
Part 5. Personal Article Collection
18: 18. Do you maintain a personal bibliographic database for print and/or electronic references?
Examples: EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, etc	Please choose only one of the following: Yes No
[Only answer this question if you answered 'Yes' to question '18']
18.1: 18.1 Which software do you use?
	Please choose only one of the following: Biblioscape Bibtex EndNote Nota Bene Papyrus ProCite Reference Manager RefWorks Other
19: 19. Do you maintain a personal article collection, in print or electronic form?
	Please choose only one of the following: Yes No
[Only answer this question if you answered 'Yes' to question '19']
19.1: 19.1 Indicate the approximate size of both your print and electronic article collections
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item 0-49 50-99 100-499 500-999 1000+ Print Electronic
[Only answer this question if you answered 'Yes' to question '19']
19.2: 19.2 How often do you utilize your personal article collection?
	Please choose only one of the following: Never Annually Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily
[Only answer this question if you answered 'Yes' to question '19']
19.3: 19.3 Of articles you have in your personal article collection, on what percentage of them have you made some sort of notes?
0% - 100%	Please write your answer here:
[Only answer this question if you answered 'Yes' to question '18' and if you answered 'Yes' to question '19']
19.4: 19.4 Of the articles you have in your personal article collection, what percentage of them have entries in your personal bibliographic database?
0% - 100%	Please write your answer here:
Part 6. Searching and Using Information
20: 20. If given the option, how would you prefer to search for information?
	Please choose only one of the following: Print versions of databases and journals Electronic versions of databases and journals
21: 21. If given the option, how would you prefer to read retrieved information (journal articles, etc)?
	Please choose only one of the following: Print (hardcopy) only Electronic (computer) only Both/it depends
22: 22. Which type of interface would you rather use to begin your search process?
	Please choose only one of the following: Google search page Your library's home page
23: 23. How many times did you visit University libraries in person in the last 12 months?
	Please write your answer here:
24: 24. Please indicate the number of times you visited the library in the last month with the primary purpose of
	Please write your answer(s) here: Photocopying materials: Getting assistance from a librarian: Using computers: Performing searches: Reading current journals or other materials: Quiet reading space: Meetings: Browsing: Picking up/dropping off materials:
25: 25. How many times did you use the following services to remotely interact with your library in the last month?
	Please write your answer(s) here: Phone: IM, IRC, chat : Email : Other?:
26: 26. What determines your choice of journals for the publication of your work?
	Please choose the appropriate response for each item Insignificant Significant Ability to include links, color, graphics, multimedia Audience Author having to pay page charges for long articles or color figures Availability on campus Editorial board Page charges for long articles or color figures Speed of publication Standing of journal in your field Support of open access to journal articles
27: 27. In your opinion, what are the shortcomings of the library, and what new or different services you would like to see provided?
	Please write your answer here:
28: 28. In your opinion, what are the successes of your library?
	Please write your answer here:
29: 29. Imagine that you could have information made available to you in any form you desired. What one thing would you change to improve your access to, or use of, scholarly information?
	Please write your answer here: