Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Course Reserves written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study gives extensive data on how US higher education faculty use course reserves, particularly through their academic libraries. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: which faculty use course reserves? How much? How satisfied are they with the services academic libraries provide for course reserves? Do they put print materials on course reserve? Digital materials? How easy is it to use course reserves? How easy is it to integrate course reserves with course management systems? What can be done to improve course reserve systems? This 70-page study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Just a few of this report's many findings are that: 34.43% of adjunct faculty in the sample put materials on course reserve in the academic library. 37.22% of faculty felt it was very easy to put materials on course reserve. Faculty of Asian origin were much more likely than others to worry that they were abrogating copyright or licensing strictures when they put materials on course reserve. Faculty at the smallest colleges were particularly dissatisfied with the ease of integrating content on course reserve into course management systems.

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Requesting the Library to Purchase New Materials written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 77-page report gives extensive and detailed data on who, how often, and for what kinds of materials, do faculty request that their academic libraries make purchases of new materials. The study also gives detailed data on just how often such requests are fulfilled and for whom, enabling readers of the study to compare effective fulfillment rates - for example - for male vs female faculty, or full professors vs. instructors or associate professors - or Caucasian vs. Asian origin faculty - or faculty in visual arts vs. those in economics or history. The study gives unique data sets for requests for each of the following types of materials; databases, journals and other periodicals, print books, eBooks, and audio-visual resources. For each type of resource, the study shows which faculty most often make requests, and 13 tables of data highlight demand for each type of resources. Just a few of this unique report's many findings are that: Faculty in history were the most likely to consider their library extremely responsive to their requests.The likelihood of requesting the library to purchase a print book was strongly positively correlated with the personal age of the respondent.Nearly 27% of tenured faculty had ever requested their library to order an eBook for them.Respondents at private colleges made more than twice the number of new materials requests per capita to their academic libraries than faculty from public colleges.This 77-page study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Academic Libraries Other Than One s Own written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at how often academics use the libraries of other institutions, and in general how aware are scholars about arrangements allowing them to use other academic libraries. The study also presents data on faculty satisfaction with their access to the libraries of other institutions. In an era of extensive cross-institution scholarly collaboration, the report also details the satisfaction level of faculty with the ease with which faculty from other institutions can use the home libraries of their collaborators. This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Just a few of this 65-page report's many findings are that: ?Use of other institutions libraries was greatest among faculty in history and journalism, of which 73.68% and 76.92% of faculty respectively had used the academic library of another institution.?Faculty from BA-level institutions were more aware than those of other types of colleges and universities of the existence of resource-sharing agreements between their own and other institution's libraries.?By academic title, adjuncts were the least satisfied with resource-sharing arrangements.

Download or read book Survey of US HIgher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Academia Edu and ResearchGate written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks closely at the incidence, extent and kind of use of the major academic social networking sites Academia.Edu and ResearchGate by higher education faculty in the USA. The report presents data for each service individually, with distinct data sets for the percentage of faculty using a particular service, the extent of their use, and their evaluation of the usefulness of the service to the individual scholar. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what type of faculty value ResearchGate or Academia.Edu the most? How much time do faculty in the sciences spend each month on these sites compared to faculty in the humanities? Visual arts? Social sciences? Business? How does usage and valuation breakdown by age, gender, work title, or race/ethnicity of the faculty member? Data in the report is based on a survey of 731 higher education faculty, randomly chosen from a representative universe of more than 500 colleges and universities in the USA; surveying was conducted in April, May & early June 2023. Data in the report is broken down by a wide range of institutional and personal variables enabling the study's users to pinpoint - by useful criteria - how these sites are being used and by whom. Just a few of this comprehensive 115-page report's many findings are that: ?25.72% of faculty surveyed report having used Academic.Edu in the past month.?Faculty from research universities checked ResearchGate a mean of 3.27 times in the past month.?Faculty from MA/doctoral level colleges had the highest propensity to value Academia.Edu?Posting frequency on ResearchGate correlated highly with personal income level.

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Academic Libraries Other Than One s Own written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study looks at how often academics use the libraries of other institutions, and in general how aware are scholars about arrangements allowing them to use other academic libraries. The study also presents data on faculty satisfaction with their access to the libraries of other institutions. In an era of extensive cross-institution scholarly collaboration, the report also details the satisfaction level of faculty with the ease with which faculty from other institutions can use the home libraries of their collaborators. This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others." -- from publisher website

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Proxies to Retrieve Items at the Academic Library written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks closely at the use of proxies by higher education faculty to retrieve items from or represent them at academic libraries. Such programs have become more popular in recent years as more faculty work remotely and visit the library less. Some libraires have found them useful in maintaining faculty links to the library, particularly to print and audio-visual items. The report gives detailed data on the percentage and type of faculty who have used such proxy programs, and the extent of their use. In addition, Just a few of the findings from this 43-page report are that: ?Older faculty tended to be more aware of this policy than younger ones; 68.01% of faculty over age 60 felt such a policy existed vs. only 46.67% of faculty under age 30.?Use was greater by faculty who considered themselves political conservatives than those on the left wing of the political spectrum. Data in the report is based on a survey of 954 higher education faculty from nearly 500 institutions; data is broken out by a broad range of personal and institutional variables including age, gender, work title, academic field, personal income level, type of higher education institution, and other useful variables.

Download or read book Survey of Higher Education Faculty 2023 Evaluating Personal Comfort in the Academic Library written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 95-page study presents highly detailed data on just how comfortable faculty library patrons are in the academic library. It helps its readers to answer questions such as: what do faculty think of the library's current COVID control efforts? How about the noise level in the library? Is the air conditioning insufficient or excessive, or just about right? How clean is the library? Is it warm enough in the library building in winter? How about library bathrooms? What would make the library more comfortable? And, overall, just how comfortable is your academic library?The study helps its readers to get at the nitty gritty issues that often impact library use but about which little systematic information is available. This unique study fills the gap.Just a few of the many findings from this report are:79.4% of respondents felt that the temperature in the academic library in winter was about right.About 7% of female respondents felt that it was too cold in the library when the air conditioning was on.African-American and Hispanic faculty were more likely than their Caucasian or Asian-origin peers to feel that the library's current COVID policies were deficient.Data in the study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.

Download or read book SURVEY OF US HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY 2023 MAKING COPIES IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Need for Use of Information about Copyright written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks closely at the extent and kind of information about copyright practices needed by faculty at US colleges and universities. The report helps its readers to answer questions such as: how much do faculty need information about copyright? How much have they used and benefited from information about copyright provided by academic libraries? What policies in this area do faculty want libraries to follow? How satisfied are they with current policies? What are the demographic characteristics of faculty who have consulted attorneys about copyright issues? Which faculty go to librarians and which rely on peers for copyright advice? Which copyright issues most concern faculty? Are they more inclined to query about copyright issues related to open access? Or to issues related to making material available in their classes? The study presents specific data for faculty interest in a broad range of copyright issues, including but not limited to open access, copyright for data, issues with commercial article sharing platforms, negotiation of author contracts, use of audio-visual materials, copyright issues in citation and much more. This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college type, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Readers can compare the copyright needs and practices of faculty in medicine to those in the social sciences, for example, or to business faculty. Also, copyright information consumption of associate professors can be compared to that for full professors, etc. etc. Just a few of this 118-page report's many findings are:Broken out by work title, associate professors had the strongest need for information about copyright26.4% of full professors sampled had ever consulted a lawyer over a copyright issue.Broken out by type of college, dissatisfaction with the services to advise or inform about copyright practices was highest at specialized colleges, such as seminaries, theater schools and other similar institutions.

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Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Interest in Producing Or Using Open Access Educational Materials written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks closely at which faculty author, hope to author, or use open access educational materials. Survey respondents comment on their hopes and fears for open access, and contribute to a unique dataset enabling report readers to pinpoint faculty who enable open access to their lectures, who want to write textbooks, open access or otherwise, or who have developed open access materials in the past. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what type of faculty, defined by many characteristics, have produced open access materials? Who is interested in doing so? Who is using such materials and to what extent? This study is based on data from a survey of 954 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.Just a few of this 98-page report's many findings are that: ?7.44% of faculty sampled are currently writing a textbook for either commercial or open access distribution.?54.55% of faculty under the age of thirty had ever used an open access textbook in one of their classes.?Faculty in environmental sciences were the most likely of those in all subject fields to have made their lectures available open access online.?Broken out by race or ethnicity, Black or African American faculty were the most interested in authoring open access educational materials.

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Download or read book SURVEY OF US HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY 2023 REQUESTING THE LIBRARY TO PURCHASE NEW MATERIALS written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Serving on Library Procurement Committees written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies which faculty have served on library procurement committees, either representing their departments to the academic library, or working on departmental or college/university wide committees concerning library acquisitions and other strategies. The report gives highly detailed data not only enabling readers to pinpoint participants and likely participants in library policy committees but understanding how faculty view such committees and the importance that they attach to them. This 77-page study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Readers can compare the number of copies made by faculty in law orJust a few of this report's many findings are that:?Involvement in library procurement decision making is highest among faculty in BA-level colleges.?Faculty in history, visual arts, law, performing arts, journalism and religion/philosophy were more involved in library committees than are faculty of other disciplines.?12.16% of faculty sampled have ever been an official liaison from their academic department to the academic library.

Download or read book Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023 Use of Faculty Research Rooms Desks and Lockers in the Academic Library written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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