Viewing Results for

2012-2013 VT ETD User Survey

1. Where do you work and/or study?

$3.9%\%$ Government (8/205 responses)

$7.8%\%$ Other (16/205 responses)

$9.27%\%$ Industry / Business (19/205 responses)

$60.98%\%$ Education: university (125/205 responses)

$12.2%\%$ Education: college (25/205 responses)

$5.85%\%$ Education: K-12 (12/205 responses)

94.29% of the people who took this survey
(198 / 210) answered this question.

Other Responses (16 for this question)

"biology/plant pathology"

"blast"

"doctor"

"free"

"OFFICE"

"other"( 8 ) responses

"QA"

"self-employed"

"t"

2. What do you do? (What is your occupation?)

$23.67%\%$ Researcher (49/207 responses)

$47.34%\%$ Student (98/207 responses)

$5.31%\%$ Faculty (11/207 responses)

$0.48%\%$ Librarian (1/207 responses)

$3.38%\%$ Administrator (7/207 responses)

$10.14%\%$ Teacher (21/207 responses)

$9.66%\%$ Other (20/207 responses)

94.76% of the people who took this survey
(199 / 210) answered this question.

Other Responses (20 for this question)

"Engineer"( 4 ) responses

"Faculty & Part time Research"

"it"

"maintenance"

"other"( 10 ) responses

"supervisor"

"technical editor"

"Technician"

3. What type of computer are you using?

$8.04%\%$ Don't know (16/199 responses)

$3.02%\%$ Unix-based (6/199 responses)

$5.53%\%$ Mac (11/199 responses)

$76.88%\%$ PC (153/199 responses)

$6.53%\%$ Other (13/199 responses)

93.33% of the people who took this survey
(196 / 210) answered this question.

Other Responses (13 for this question)

"hp older"

"laptop"( 2 ) responses

"Linux"

"other"( 8 ) responses

"لابتوب"

4. What is the speed/type of connection are you using?

$9.14%\%$ Slower than 14.4kbps (18/197 responses)

$6.09%\%$ 14.4 kbps (12/197 responses)

$6.6%\%$ 28.8 kbps (13/197 responses)

$4.06%\%$ 36.6 kbps (8/197 responses)

$11.17%\%$ 56 kbps (22/197 responses)

$6.6%\%$ ISDN (13/197 responses)

$10.66%\%$ Ethernet (21/197 responses)

$2.03%\%$ T1 (4/197 responses)

$11.17%\%$ Cable modem (22/197 responses)

$32.49%\%$ Don't know (64/197 responses)

93.81% of the people who took this survey
(197 / 210) answered this question.

5. Are you familiar with Adobe PDF?

$91.37%\%$ Yes (180/197 responses)

$8.63%\%$ No (17/197 responses)

93.81% of the people who took this survey
(197 / 210) answered this question.

6. Are you familiar with online databases?

$70.1%\%$ Yes (136/194 responses)

$29.9%\%$ No (58/194 responses)

92.38% of the people who took this survey
(194 / 210) answered this question.

7. If you are from a university, does your institution accept electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)?

$24.18%\%$ No (44/182 responses)

$75.82%\%$ Yes (138/182 responses)

86.67% of the people who took this survey
(182 / 210) answered this question.

8. If your institution does not accept ETDs, do you think it should?

$38.64%\%$ No opinion (68/176 responses)

$50%\%$ Yes (88/176 responses)

$11.36%\%$ No (20/176 responses)

83.81% of the people who took this survey
(176 / 210) answered this question.

9. Have you ever submitted an ETD?

$72.11%\%$ No (137/190 responses)

$27.89%\%$ Yes (53/190 responses)

90.48% of the people who took this survey
(190 / 210) answered this question.

10. For what purpose are you using this digital library?
Check all that apply.

$10.81%\%$ Learning about ETDs (28/259 responses)

$13.13%\%$ Personal interest (34/259 responses)

$11.2%\%$ Job related (29/259 responses)

$61.78%\%$ Research (160/259 responses)

$3.09%\%$ Other (8/259 responses)

91.43% of the people who took this survey
(192 / 210) answered this question.

Other Responses (8 for this question)

"looking for a specific ETD"

"other"( 4 ) responses

"paper"

"Speech"

"to find my own PhD thesis"

11. Did you download any ETDs?
If so, how many?

$26.22%\%$ more than 10 (43/164 responses)

$11.59%\%$ 6-10 (19/164 responses)

$16.46%\%$ 3-5 (27/164 responses)

$45.73%\%$ 1-2 (75/164 responses)

78.1% of the people who took this survey
(164 / 210) answered this question.

12. If you downloaded any ETDs, how did you find them?
Please select all that apply.

$22.04%\%$ Searched: Basic (54/245 responses)

$22.45%\%$ Browsed by department (55/245 responses)

$18.78%\%$ Browsed by author (46/245 responses)

$20%\%$ Searched: Advanced (49/245 responses)

$16.73%\%$ Direct link (41/245 responses)

79.05% of the people who took this survey
(166 / 210) answered this question.

13. If you downloaded any ETDs, how easy was it to find what you were looking for?

$7.88%\%$ Very difficult (13/165 responses)

$22.42%\%$ Difficult (37/165 responses)

$30.3%\%$ Fairly easy (50/165 responses)

$25.45%\%$ Easy (42/165 responses)

$13.94%\%$ Very easy (23/165 responses)

78.57% of the people who took this survey
(165 / 210) answered this question.

14. If you searched for an ETD, how fast was the response to your search request?

$2.38%\%$ Very slow (4/168 responses)

$17.26%\%$ Slow (29/168 responses)

$28.57%\%$ Fairly fast (48/168 responses)

$35.71%\%$ Fast (60/168 responses)

$16.07%\%$ Very fast (27/168 responses)

80% of the people who took this survey
(168 / 210) answered this question.

15. How often do you plan to use Virginia Tech's ETD library?

$17.32%\%$ Rarely (31/179 responses)

$25.14%\%$ Occasionally (45/179 responses)

$14.53%\%$ Monthly (26/179 responses)

$28.49%\%$ Weekly (51/179 responses)

$14.53%\%$ Daily (26/179 responses)

85.24% of the people who took this survey
(179 / 210) answered this question.

16. How often do you plan to use other ETD libraries?

$21.98%\%$ Occasionally (40/182 responses)

$15.38%\%$ Monthly (28/182 responses)

$30.77%\%$ Weekly (56/182 responses)

$19.23%\%$ Daily (35/182 responses)

$12.64%\%$ Rarely (23/182 responses)

86.67% of the people who took this survey
(182 / 210) answered this question.

Additional comments:
Please provide any comments about Virginia Tech's ETDs.

Text Responses (73 for this question)

"............"

":P"

"a good one"

"An index by department, then subject would be nice."

"Being able to browse by department (not just by first letter) would be nice."

"coking"

"conveninet"

"convient"

"excellant"

"Excellent information"

"Found it very useful"

"good" - ( 3 responses)

"Good job"

"good website"

"great"

"gud info"

"have a nice try"

"helpfull and organized"

"I am happy to use ETDs , Its very helpful to my carrier"

"I could not find my thesis (published in 1992 or 1993)"

"I have no ideas about it"

"I hope that this service would help me a lot，thanks very much for this system."

"i hope this can provide a good thesis"

"I HOPE WE CAN DOWNLOAD ESSAYS WHEN WE NEED,SAY 2 OR 3 PIECES AT A TIME,THAT SHOULD BE GOOD."

"i want to learn download of the books.."

"i want to take admission there in PhD there. but i have no source of funding. And this is my dream to do PhD from there. if Virginia Tech's can help me in this regard.Because i am belong to a poor country."

"I'm frustrated by the search options. I want to be able to select the dept and then search by keyword within that. This seems like a very obvious type of search that many people would want to do, but I can't see any way to do it. I don't want to have to browse through every thesis from the dept or get a huge results list from a keyword search. I actually got better results using Addison than the ETD search page."

"in this global village there is the need of e knowledge to become e- educated."

"It is so nice site to know information about anything."

"it is very important to our globalization.thank you."

"its a very nice and useful thing done by you people for giving the purpose to the students, faculties, etc. good job. thank you for this."

"its gud for my use"

"its very helpfull for me"

"landscape"

"Make a search function. Looking things up by letter is frustrating and old-school."

"make it easier to find basic search"

"masonry"

"Must find a way to find famous subjects in order to benefit more ..... thanks"

"N/A"

"no" - ( 6 responses)

"not used it before"

"oooo"

"perfect"

"please help me"

"ss dd"

"tentative methodes for slope stability"

"thank you" - ( 2 responses)

"Thank you all for your great effort."

"Thanks" - ( 3 responses)

"that the digital library has evo to an solid estructure in our days but isn't importatnt for the "people" cuz needs some "facilities""attractive s""and" a specialized hardware after all"

"There should be a facility for searching dissertations of past students on the basis of guides, for instance I want to read the thesis of the students who were under Prof. Hasan Aref, but I could not find any such facility here."

"this site offers quality articles and other information to researchers"

"very good" - ( 4 responses)

"Very helpful to read the research of others"

"Very nice!"

"Very usable and frutfull."

"verygood"

"Virginia Tech's ETDs is one of the pineer to provide researchers with ETD and I benefit much from this site"

"Was happily surprised to find the matter of interest at Vt-ETD. I was impressed the way it is kept with all related information."

"Why can't I juts search by name?"

Other Responses (16 for this question)
"biology/plant pathology"
"blast"
"doctor"
"free"
"OFFICE"
"other"( 8 ) responses
"QA"
"self-employed"
"t"

Other Responses (20 for this question)
"Engineer"( 4 ) responses
"Faculty & Part time Research"
"it"
"maintenance"
"other"( 10 ) responses
"supervisor"
"technical editor"
"Technician"

Other Responses (13 for this question)
"hp older"
"laptop"( 2 ) responses
"Linux"
"other"( 8 ) responses
"لابتوب"

Other Responses (8 for this question)
"looking for a specific ETD"
"other"( 4 ) responses
"paper"
"Speech"
"to find my own PhD thesis"

Text Responses (73 for this question)
"............"
":P"
"a good one"
"An index by department, then subject would be nice."
"Being able to browse by department (not just by first letter) would be nice."
"coking"
"conveninet"
"convient"
"excellant"
"Excellent information"
"Found it very useful"
"good" - ( 3 responses)
"Good job"
"good website"
"great"
"gud info"
"have a nice try"
"helpfull and organized"
"I am happy to use ETDs , Its very helpful to my carrier"
"I could not find my thesis (published in 1992 or 1993)"
"I have no ideas about it"
"I hope that this service would help me a lot，thanks very much for this system."
"i hope this can provide a good thesis"
"I HOPE WE CAN DOWNLOAD ESSAYS WHEN WE NEED,SAY 2 OR 3 PIECES AT A TIME,THAT SHOULD BE GOOD."
"i want to learn download of the books.."
"i want to take admission there in PhD there. but i have no source of funding. And this is my dream to do PhD from there. if Virginia Tech's can help me in this regard.Because i am belong to a poor country."
"I'm frustrated by the search options. I want to be able to select the dept and then search by keyword within that. This seems like a very obvious type of search that many people would want to do, but I can't see any way to do it. I don't want to have to browse through every thesis from the dept or get a huge results list from a keyword search. I actually got better results using Addison than the ETD search page."
"in this global village there is the need of e knowledge to become e- educated."
"It is so nice site to know information about anything."
"it is very important to our globalization.thank you."
"its a very nice and useful thing done by you people for giving the purpose to the students, faculties, etc. good job. thank you for this."
"its gud for my use"
"its very helpfull for me"
"landscape"
"Make a search function. Looking things up by letter is frustrating and old-school."
"make it easier to find basic search"
"masonry"
"Must find a way to find famous subjects in order to benefit more ..... thanks"
"N/A"
"no" - ( 6 responses)
"not used it before"
"oooo"
"perfect"
"please help me"
"ss dd"
"tentative methodes for slope stability"
"thank you" - ( 2 responses)
"Thank you all for your great effort."
"Thanks" - ( 3 responses)
"that the digital library has evo to an solid estructure in our days but isn't importatnt for the "people" cuz needs some "facilities""attractive s""and" a specialized hardware after all"
"There should be a facility for searching dissertations of past students on the basis of guides, for instance I want to read the thesis of the students who were under Prof. Hasan Aref, but I could not find any such facility here."
"this site offers quality articles and other information to researchers"
"very good" - ( 4 responses)
"Very helpful to read the research of others"
"Very nice!"
"Very usable and frutfull."
"verygood"
"Virginia Tech's ETDs is one of the pineer to provide researchers with ETD and I benefit much from this site"
"Was happily surprised to find the matter of interest at Vt-ETD. I was impressed the way it is kept with all related information."
"Why can't I juts search by name?"

http://lumiere.lib.vt.edu/surveys/results/view_results.php3
Generated at 04:58 pm on Monday, October 26th, 2015

	$3.9%\%$	Government	(8/205 responses)
	$7.8%\%$	Other	(16/205 responses)
	$9.27%\%$	Industry / Business	(19/205 responses)
	$60.98%\%$	Education: university	(125/205 responses)
	$12.2%\%$	Education: college	(25/205 responses)
	$5.85%\%$	Education: K-12	(12/205 responses)
94.29% of the people who took this survey (198 / 210) answered this question.

	$23.67%\%$	Researcher	(49/207 responses)
	$47.34%\%$	Student	(98/207 responses)
	$5.31%\%$	Faculty	(11/207 responses)
	$0.48%\%$	Librarian	(1/207 responses)
	$3.38%\%$	Administrator	(7/207 responses)
	$10.14%\%$	Teacher	(21/207 responses)
	$9.66%\%$	Other	(20/207 responses)
94.76% of the people who took this survey (199 / 210) answered this question.

	$8.04%\%$	Don't know	(16/199 responses)
	$3.02%\%$	Unix-based	(6/199 responses)
	$5.53%\%$	Mac	(11/199 responses)
	$76.88%\%$	PC	(153/199 responses)
	$6.53%\%$	Other	(13/199 responses)
93.33% of the people who took this survey (196 / 210) answered this question.

	$9.14%\%$	Slower than 14.4kbps	(18/197 responses)
	$6.09%\%$	14.4 kbps	(12/197 responses)
	$6.6%\%$	28.8 kbps	(13/197 responses)
	$4.06%\%$	36.6 kbps	(8/197 responses)
	$11.17%\%$	56 kbps	(22/197 responses)
	$6.6%\%$	ISDN	(13/197 responses)
	$10.66%\%$	Ethernet	(21/197 responses)
	$2.03%\%$	T1	(4/197 responses)
	$11.17%\%$	Cable modem	(22/197 responses)
	$32.49%\%$	Don't know	(64/197 responses)
93.81% of the people who took this survey (197 / 210) answered this question.

	$91.37%\%$	Yes	(180/197 responses)
	$8.63%\%$	No	(17/197 responses)
93.81% of the people who took this survey (197 / 210) answered this question.

	$70.1%\%$	Yes	(136/194 responses)
	$29.9%\%$	No	(58/194 responses)
92.38% of the people who took this survey (194 / 210) answered this question.

	$24.18%\%$	No	(44/182 responses)
	$75.82%\%$	Yes	(138/182 responses)
86.67% of the people who took this survey (182 / 210) answered this question.

	$38.64%\%$	No opinion	(68/176 responses)
	$50%\%$	Yes	(88/176 responses)
	$11.36%\%$	No	(20/176 responses)
83.81% of the people who took this survey (176 / 210) answered this question.

	$72.11%\%$	No	(137/190 responses)
	$27.89%\%$	Yes	(53/190 responses)
90.48% of the people who took this survey (190 / 210) answered this question.

	$10.81%\%$	Learning about ETDs	(28/259 responses)
	$13.13%\%$	Personal interest	(34/259 responses)
	$11.2%\%$	Job related	(29/259 responses)
	$61.78%\%$	Research	(160/259 responses)
	$3.09%\%$	Other	(8/259 responses)
91.43% of the people who took this survey (192 / 210) answered this question.

	$26.22%\%$	more than 10	(43/164 responses)
	$11.59%\%$	6-10	(19/164 responses)
	$16.46%\%$	3-5	(27/164 responses)
	$45.73%\%$	1-2	(75/164 responses)
78.1% of the people who took this survey (164 / 210) answered this question.

	$22.04%\%$	Searched: Basic	(54/245 responses)
	$22.45%\%$	Browsed by department	(55/245 responses)
	$18.78%\%$	Browsed by author	(46/245 responses)
	$20%\%$	Searched: Advanced	(49/245 responses)
	$16.73%\%$	Direct link	(41/245 responses)
79.05% of the people who took this survey (166 / 210) answered this question.

	$7.88%\%$	Very difficult	(13/165 responses)
	$22.42%\%$	Difficult	(37/165 responses)
	$30.3%\%$	Fairly easy	(50/165 responses)
	$25.45%\%$	Easy	(42/165 responses)
	$13.94%\%$	Very easy	(23/165 responses)
78.57% of the people who took this survey (165 / 210) answered this question.

	$2.38%\%$	Very slow	(4/168 responses)
	$17.26%\%$	Slow	(29/168 responses)
	$28.57%\%$	Fairly fast	(48/168 responses)
	$35.71%\%$	Fast	(60/168 responses)
	$16.07%\%$	Very fast	(27/168 responses)
80% of the people who took this survey (168 / 210) answered this question.

	$17.32%\%$	Rarely	(31/179 responses)
	$25.14%\%$	Occasionally	(45/179 responses)
	$14.53%\%$	Monthly	(26/179 responses)
	$28.49%\%$	Weekly	(51/179 responses)
	$14.53%\%$	Daily	(26/179 responses)
85.24% of the people who took this survey (179 / 210) answered this question.

	$21.98%\%$	Occasionally	(40/182 responses)
	$15.38%\%$	Monthly	(28/182 responses)
	$30.77%\%$	Weekly	(56/182 responses)
	$19.23%\%$	Daily	(35/182 responses)
	$12.64%\%$	Rarely	(23/182 responses)
86.67% of the people who took this survey (182 / 210) answered this question.