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Subject: Ithaka faculty and librarian surveys data available through ICPSR
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 Ithakašs 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
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