Hell Rie,

 

We used a similar approach (with similar data points) very recently to assist with decision-making on which titles to re-subscribe from 2 big deals we are not renewing. I won’t go into all the details, but in general:

·         The survey had a listing of all the titles we wanted them to consider (included title, cost, average downloads per year, cost/average download per year)

·         Each title was assigned to one or two colleges based on the subjects assigned by the publisher

·         Faculty and graduate students could filter the titles based on college (in our case we had a very large set of titles)

·         There were 2 steps to the survey

1.       Select up to 10 titles they wanted to recommend for re-subscription

2.       Rank from 1 to X the titles they selected

·         Respondents could provide an open comment

·         We weighted the ranked journals

 

Added to the survey data were usage (average downloads per year), cost/average download per year, citations by our researchers to the journal, publication frequency by our researchers in the journal to derive an aggregate score. We did not use impact factor, which was criticized by some faculty, because of the differences that exist in citation patterns between disciplines and other issues related to impact factors.

 

Our survey was developed for us by our campus Social Sciences Research Laboratory using a survey tool (I believe that it is a commercial tool, but I can’t remember the name) they have.

 

Good luck with your survey.

 

Ken

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Glyph  Ken Ladd
Collection Services Librarian
Collection Services

University Library, University of Saskatchewan

Tel: (306) 966-5946 

 

 

 

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Dear Colleagues,

 

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good feedback survey or questionnaire to assess importance of particular set of journals among faculty members.

 

We are trying to prioritize one set of journal titles (about 60+ titles) for collection development purposes. We are hoping  to be able to rank journal titles by importance, and would like to assess it by online survey. We have data including Impact Factors, usage statistics, citation analysis such as journal titles our faculty members are publishing articles, as well as articles that they are citing in their publications, etc... But now we are looking for faculty members preferences and their opinions of important titles.

 

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance everyone!

Rie

 

Rie Goto, MSLIS

Assistant University Librarian

Rita and Frits Markus Library

Rockefeller University

1230 York Ave. RU Box 263

New York, NY 10065

Phone: 212-327-8980

Fax: 212-327-8802

 

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