Database Survey

KYVL Database User Survey October 2000

KYVL Collections Work Group

To help us provide you with better service, please take the time to answer as many of the following questions as you can. There are seven questions; it will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Are you a:

Librarian

Teacher

Student

Other user

To what user group do you belong :

Public University or College Private University or College

K-12 Public School Public Library

Business, hospital, state agency

We would really value your opinions of the individual databases. Tell us what databases you use and if you can take a few extra minutes, rate them for us.

Database	Usage	Rating
Academic Search Elite	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
ArticleFirst	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Biological & Agricultural Index	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Books In Print w/ Reviews	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Business Source Premier	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
CINAHL	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Clinical Reference Systems	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
ContentsFirst	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
EBSCO Animals	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Electronic Collections Online	Used Never Used	Excellent Goo d Fair Poor
ERIC	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Funk &Wagnells	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
GPO Monthly Catalog	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Health Source Plus	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
MAS (Magazine Articles Summaries) FullTEXT Ultra	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
MasterFILE Premier	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Medline OCLC	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Medline fulltext (EBSCO)	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Middle Search Plus	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
NetFirst	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Newspaper Source	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
NoveList	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
PAIS	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
PapersFirst	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Primary Search Online	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
ProceedingsFirst	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Professional Development Collection	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
PsycINFO	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Union List of Periodicals	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
USP DI Vol 2 Advice for the Patient	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
Vocational Search	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
WorldCat	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
World Almanac	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor
World Book Encyclopedia	Used Never Used	Excellent Good Fair Poor

4. Give an overall satisfaction rating of the KYVL databases:

Excellent Good Fair Poor

5. What subject areas would you like to see better covered in the KYVL databases?

6. Do you know of a specific database that you think should be added?

Yes Database suggestion:

Public University or College	Private University or College
K-12 Public School	Public Library
Business, hospital, state agency