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Article #2273Re: User Survey
From: David Valentine
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 21:25
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 21:25
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>Bibliographic Software Usage Study
>
>About the way you use your computer...
>
>1. Which personal computer do you use most often for your writing?
> _X__ Apple Macintosh
>
>2. Which operating system do you usually use?
> X_Mac (system 7)
>3. Are you considering switching to a different computer or operating
> system?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, to which one? Sun Sparcstation running Solaris
>
>4. Which word processor do you use most often?
> X_ Microsoft Word
>5. Is your computer connected to a network?
> X_ Yes
> If yes, do you share files on that network? X_ Yes
>6. Do you have access to a modem?
> __ Yes X_ No
>
>7. Do you use an online database or a CD ROM for literature searches?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, which one(s)? Georef(Silverplatter), Science Citation Index
>
>8. Do other people you know use bibliographic software?
> X_ Yes
> If yes, which one(s)? (check all that apply)
>
> __ Bookends __ dms4Cite X_ EndNote
> __ Get-A-Ref __ NoteBook __ Papyrus
> X_ ProCite __ Ref-11 __ Reference Manager
> __ WPCitation __ Other __________
>
>9. Do you use a current awareness service?
> __ Yes X_ No
> If yes, which one?
> __ Current Contents __ Reference Update __ Other ___________
>
>About your experience with our company...
>
>10. Have you ever contacted Niles & Associates for technical support?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, please rate our service on a scale of 1 to 10.
> (1 = poor and 10 = excellent) 10
>
>11. Have you ever contacted Niles & Associates for any other reason?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, please rate our service on a scale of 1 to 10.
> (1 = poor and 10 = excellent) 10
>About the way you use EndNote...
>
>12. How often do you use EndNote or EndNote Plus?
> __ Don't use __ Rarely __ Once a month
> X_ Once a week to X_ Daily
>
>13. What do you use the product for? (Check all that apply)
> X_ Organize references
> __ Print bibliographies directly from EndNote
> X_ Format papers. X_ Other Figure Caption Numbering
>
>14. Approximately how many references do you have in your EndNote
> libraries?
> __ 0-100 __ 101-500 X_ 500-1000 __ 1000-2000
> __ 2000-4000 __ 4000-6000 __ 6000-10000 __ 10000-15000
> __ 15000-32000
>
>15. Approximately how long is an average document you format ?
> X_ 1-30 pages __ 31-100 pages __ over 100 pages
>
>16. Do you use EndNote Plus?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, do you use the Journal Abbreviation function?
> X_ Yes __ No
> How many journals do you have in your journal names file? 100
>
>17. Have you ever created a new style in EndNote?
> X_ Yes __ No
> If yes, for which journal? Science, Nature, J. Geophysical Research,
Earth Science and Planetary Letters, Bulletin of Geology
>
>18. Do you use EndLink?
> X_ Yes __ No
>
>19. Does the library at your university or company provide access to
> their online catalog from your personal computer?
> X_ Yes __ No
>
>20. What is your overall impression of our products:
> (1 = poor and 10 = excellent)
> EndNote _____
> EndNote Plus 8___
> Plug-In Module (for Word 5) 9____
> EndLink 5____
>
>21. Please list any functions you would like us to add to our products:
More flexible reference types, so you do not lose reference types when
changing computers, or alert users that the reference types have changed.
Ability to easily move reference types without destorying the old reference
types.
Spell checking/ Apple Word services suite
Ability to limit seaches by > or < year, and endnote reference number.
Floating journal abbreviation windows
View referecences as formated in database window.
Ability to have 'in'references. References inside other references for
compilations.
Ability to select references in a paper, and export a data to a new endnote
database.
Ability to keep a log of new entries. These files could be combined with a
main database. These can be used to update other users databases, recover a
crashed database, or a implement network sharing setup. (The Helix database
has log files. You can pull the plug on the machine, and not lose bit of
data)
Program for numbering figures and tables that works similar to endnote.
>22. What can we do to improve our service?
>Service has been excellent.
>
>About yourself... (For Classification Purposes only)
>
>23. What is your degree?
> __ Ph.D __ M.D. __ BS/BA
> X_ MS/MA __ No degree __ Other___________
>
>24. What is your main work activity?
> X_ Basic Research __ Applied Research __ Education
> __ Administration __ Other_____________________________
>
>25. What is your job title?
> __ Undergraduate student X Graduate student __ Professor
> __ Administrator __ Librarian __ Researcher
> __ Other_____________________________
>
>
>26. Which of the following best describes your employer?
> X_ Academic institute __ Private company __ K-12 Education
> __ Government agency __ Other____________________________________
>
>27. Please specify your research field. (e.g. Psychology, Anthropology,
> Biochemistry)
>Geology, Earth Sciences_______________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>28. Please specify which of the following publications you read on a
> regular basis; that is, three or four out of every four issues published
> __ APA Monitor
> __ American Scientist
> X_ BYTE
> __ Chronicle of Higher Education
> X_ InfoWorld
> X_ Macworld
> X_ MacWEEK
> __ MacUser
> X_ Nature
> __ PC/Computing
> __ PC Magazine
> __ PC Week
> __ PC World
> X_ Science
> X_ Scientific American
> __ Scientific Computing & Automation
> __ The Scientist
>
>29. Please tell us how you initially heard about our product.
>Advertising.
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