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Primary
Research Group has published The
Survey of Higher Education Faculty:
Evaluation of Library Efforts to
Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives
and other Cyber Resources, ISBN, 1-57440-13X-X.
This report presents data on how higher education faculty in the
United States and
The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in
the
including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.
Just a few of the report’s many finding are that:
More than 53% of faculty in the sample refer to websites in scholarly papers.
Research university faculty were the most likely among faculty at all types of institutions to refer to websites in their scholarly papers – 62.5% of them do so.
15.34% of faculty sampled refer to listserv or usenet postings in presentations.
31.25% of faculty in colleges with fewer than 1,000 students refer to listserv or usenet postings in presentations, the highest among all types of colleges defined by size range in the sample.
14.71% of faculty sampled had ever used a web archive in their scholarly work. Faculty in psychology/counseling, religion and philosophy, and English and other language oriented majors were the most likely to have used such sites.
More than 14.5% of scholars in psychology and counseling have used web
archiving software, as have 12.5% in biology and medicine.
14% of faculty in the sample thought that it was important or very important to
index and catalog social networking sites. Scholars in art and the performing arts
were the most likely to view these sites as important to index and catalog.
The 250+
page study is available from Primary Research Group or from
major book distributors; for further information, view our
website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at
212-736-2316. The report is available for $99.00; site
licenses are also available.