I wanted to share the announcement below from Roger Schonfeld at Ithaka. Many CNI-announce readers are already probably familiar with the large scale surveys that Ithaka has done on faculty and librarian views and behaviors with regard to digital information resources and electronic publishing; Roger and his colleagues have presented summaries of the findings at CNI task force meetings. They have now deposited the raw data with ICPSR so that others can explore it in detail, as well as publishing more extended analysis of their own.

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI

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Ithaka has recently released the full findings from our 2006 surveys of the behavior and attitudes of faculty members and academic librarians. These complementary studies, co-sponsored by JSTOR and by Ithaka's incubated entities Portico, Aluka, and NITLE, have been of interest to academic librarians and scholarly publishers alike in presentations over the past year, but now we are making the dataset available as well.

 

The faculty study focuses on attitudes and behaviors in the transition to an increasingly electronic information environment, examining perceptions and use of information services in the research and teaching processes. The findings shed light on the relationship between faculty and the library, faculty perceptions and uses of electronic resources, the transition away from print for scholarly journals, faculty publishing preferences, e-books, digital repositories, and the preservation of scholarly journals. The librarian survey provides the perspective of senior collection development officers on many of these same issues and thereby provides the opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between faculty and librarian views.

 

We have prepared an in-depth white paper which details our findings and provides analysis and recommendations based on these studies, which may be found on the Ithaka website at http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys.

 

For those who are interested in investigating our data in greater depth, we have deposited the raw datasets from these studies with ICPSR, and the faculty and librarian studies are available at http://tinyurl.com/6rm3df and http://tinyurl.com/6hk6lg, respectively.

 

The 2006 faculty study marked the third triennial research effort in this series, and we have greatly benefited from the reactions and suggestions of the community in response to these studies. We look forward to your questions and comments about these studies.

 

Best,

Roger

 

 

Roger C. Schonfeld

Manager of Research

Ithaka

 

151 East 61st Street

New York, NY 10065

 

(212) 500 - 2338

rcs@ithaka.org

http://www.ithaka.org/research/