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1. The most urgent need is to put more academic journal access
online. Very basic social work journals are unavailable online
through U of C, and this is shocking to me as the license fee
should not stand in the way of making these available for research.
Paper copies at Regenstein (inexplicably Regenstein and not SSA)
are not helpful for social work students who are off campus at
internships 2-3 days a week and quite likely working for pay 2-3
days a week as well. Online journals they can access at midnight
are essential if true scholarship is to be maintained.
2. I would encourage the library to have more electronic resources
available this includes more back issues of online journals, and
more online access to cd roms and databases. in my field, jewish
studies, for instance, the library has the bar illan cd and certain
other cds, but they are only accesible in the library, rather than
online. Furthermore, the library is missing some very important cd
resources in Jewish studies such as the DBS Torah cd-rom
library
3. I think there are ways to better the electronic resources,
especially older issues of journals, and subscription to journals
that the library isn't subscribed to. Also possible is to have
access to foreign newspapers and resources. Books,both foreign and
domestic publications, need to be covered more extensivelyand more
copies of specific books need to be acquired. Some rare books could
also be better accessed through e-books, so i think the library
should attempt to widen its scope of subscription and attempt to be
more proactive. But thank you otherwise...
4. The library needs to invest in more subscriptions to online
journals. I am always frustrated when I find a relevant piece of
scientific literature that cannot be accessed online. The problem
has stalled my research for classes and for projects.
5. Electronic journal resources are good but still limited. Cost
should not be an issue here. I am biased to medical/health sciences
journals, but I am sure the issue extends to all disciplines - more
institutional subscriptions please!
6. I just think it would be nice if the library were to subscribe
to more online material, particularly provide online journal access
for all the journals that are available online (having used
different University libraries, it seems to me there are quite a
few journals available online that UofC does not provide access to;
some of these journals are available as paper copies, but online
access makes the research process so much more pleasant and
easy!)
7. the library did not subscribe to particular e-journals, and I
received no response when inquired about how to subscribe;
8. I hope the library will subscribe to the Renmin ribao (People's
daily) full-text database that was recently given a trial. It's an
invaluable resource for those of us working on China.
9. I use the library several times a day, but almost exclusively
via the web. It would be tremendously useful to have recent
significant books in my discipline available as on-line texts, even
if they were not downloadable. Text search capability for books
would be a great help.
10. More electronic access, and more electronic journals (I had to
wait 6 months for the library to get a journal I needed for
research electronically) would be helpful.
11. Library database for sources in Cyrillic alphabet is not very
good. Some letters (even in English transliteration) are not
presented correctly, so I can not use RefWorks program to construct
my bibliography
12. I frequently find many peer reviewed journalslisted on searches
but not available electronically.
13. i wish that more electronic journals were available through
JSTOR
14. Generally please with the library resources, but would like to
see more Ejournals.
15. I am unsatisfied with the number of electronic resources
available.
16. If more journals that extended back further in time were
available online it would make me very happy.
17. My biggest disappointment with using library resources is that
we don't have access to many of the electronic journals I need to
find PDF files of articles online.
18. it would be great if even more journals were available
electronically.
19. I am mostly satisfied with the library, but the amount of
online journal articles could be increased.
20. 95% of my use is electronic access. More Journals are needed in
full text in infectious diseases
21. Would like to see more journals available electronically.
22. i wish we had a larger e-journal subscription.
23. Occasionally the jounal materials I require are not available
electronically or in the lharary/
ACCESS
24. Sometimes I have difficulty finding the right electronic
resource to use to look for a journal. I have found that it is
often linked from the library catalog, which helps. However, I have
run into difficulties accessing those websites from the catalog
(probably user error). I have not had many issues recently. I
suppose also that some problems are on the interface of the
resource (out of the university's control).
25. Easier access to online journals. It is often very tedious to
directly link from on abstract found on PudMed or SciFinder to our
library's permission version. I often have to go to the library's
E-Journal page, look up the journal, go to the journal's homepage,
find the archives, and ultimately search through to find the
article of interest. Instead of just clicking on the link in
PubMed. Often, the MetaSearch links don't take you directly to the
article, they leave you at the most recent issue of the
journal.
26. The only problems I ever encounter are with electronic
resources. Specifically, when the search engine indicates we have
access, but the actual page requires a login and password.
27. Electronic access to jurnals has becoem very much more
cumbersome withfairly recent (about 6 months ago) change in
display. One cannot readily skim content of most journalsas, and
this used to be easy iin the past.,
28. Continuing to improve how students can access medical journals
or journals in general is important to me. While I like the current
proxy system, I find it difficult to get articles easily with the
sFX program. Also, it seems that our journal selection isn't always
the greatest and it is unclear how we can ask to get e-journals
added to the system.
29. The library lacks access (particularly electronic) to all the
major plastic surgery journals that I use regularly. These include
(but are not limited to) Annals of Plastic Surgery, Journal of
Reconstructive Microsurgery, British Journal of Plastic Surgery,
etc.
30. You guys decided to replace the list of online chemistry
journals with a general electronic journal search function. That
was stupid. You never asked the chemists what we would want. You
clearly failed to consider if this was an improvement for the
intended users. What harm was there in leaving it be? I don't read
any journals but those that are chemistry related - why in God's
name would I want to search through all of the online
journals?!?
31. My biggest complain is with the access to some particular data.
For example, Datastream, which is an awesome souce of data, is
installed in a regular computer. Every time I need it, I have to
ask somebody in that computer (that is usually just sending emails)
to go somewhere else so that I can use Datastream. I love the
library for having that access, but I'd really appreciate if
DataStrem was in a location reserved for users that want that
access. Thanks
32. The e-journals are a mess. There are a multitude of overlapping
incompatible and barely comprehensible user interfaces that deal
with myriad journals in a piecemeal fashion. Fragmentation of
on-line resources is a serious problem.
33. Electronic subscription access is often spotty...Luckily my
wife works at Northwestern so I have Galter access also...
34. I find electronic journals difficult to access. In particular,
Ovid seems to give problems in downloading .pdfs. NSIT people are
very kind, but have no idea of how to solve the problem. I'd
suggest to switch to another e-journal provider.
35. give part-time GSB students access to capital IQ - we abide by
the honor code and will not use it in an unauthorized manner. full
time students have a significant advantage over us in classes in
which they can use it.
36. -I am disapointed that beilstein Crossfire has become
difficult/impossible to use. Discoverygate may be a nice program,
but I have been unable to use it as efficientl
37. The one thing I think may need improvement is that when we
search for some journal's electronic access, we are lead to another
database, which we have to search through to find the desired
journal.
38. I find it disappointing that certain electronic information is
limited to people in GSB. As someone pursuing a degree in computer
science, there is obviously overlap with the GSB area. Yet I cannot
freely access such material. While I don't know for sure, I suspect
this may be true of the medical library. Why aren't all resources
available to all students?
39. The only issue I have run into (and this was a couple of years
ago, so it may have changed) is that I wasn't able to access the
legal databases, Lexis-Nexus and Weslaw. But I gather they are v.
expensive.
40. it should be easier to locate materials online using j
stor.
41. sometimes have trouble finding what I need on Jstor, etc.
42. The electronic access is unreliable - links to journals often
don't work.
43. I use electronic recourses of Crerar throughout the day and
evening. Unfortunatley some of the medical journals do not
open.
44. access to and navigation among the electronic databases
45. access to web-based journals is confusing, non-intuitive, many
links are down or outdated
46. The addition of more outlets in crerar would be helpful, as
would easier browsing and discovery of electronic resources.
47. Although I sometimes cannot find a journal electronically, I am
satisfied, actually quite pleased, with the quality of our library
services.
48. What needs improvement are the facilities. Its remains a tough
place to work: lighting, (seats are finally fixed, five years too
late), outlets, air quality, noise levels, study areas, food,
number of computers, ease of online databases, etc. Small gestures
towards improving the experience of working in the library would go
a long way.
49. I find it hard to do productive on line searches for
information on my own.
50. There should be an easier interface for searching for online
versions of articles in the scientific/medical journals
51. electronic - convenient for looking up specific items but lousy
for browsing, so I have had to cut back the range of journals I
look at, which adversely affects my work; adversely affects
generalists like myself; pdfs often give message that file is
bad
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1. The availability of older journals through resources like
JSTOR has revolutionized my academic research. It has easily
doubled the value of the library to me.
2. I use the library e-journal system daily, and have had
consistently good experience with it. I was impressed by the speed
with which one system problem was resolved. The electronic
resources make research very convenient, as most of the materials I
require are available online through University
subscriptions.
3. The number of electronic journal subscriptions has increased
significantly in the last year or so. I now access and store 95% of
my research digitally, reducing my paper consumption dramatically.
I also spent a lot of time at the library writing my thesis in
2006.
4. I have no complaints at all about Regenstein. I only feel guilty
that I don't use it as much as I could--I've never been in to
special collections, for instance, because the library provides a
searchable online database of eighteenth-century sources. It's
amazing!
5. The online journals are critical for my work, and 95% of the
ones I require are provided.
6. I don't live in the state anymore so electronic resources are
most important to me: not only what is available electronically,
but how easy the resources are to use.
7. Gleacher Center resources are nice. Electronic access is key to
an Evening Program student's success.
8. I love the online journals that I can access from home! I would
love to see that expand to offer more journals and issues (e.g.
offer journals online that are not currently available via the web,
expand dates of those available (some are only available from
current edition back until 1997 for example; it would be nice if
they stretched back into farther issues.))
9. The more scholarly journals (and past issues) can be accessed
electronically, the better.
10. I hope that you can invest more in putting journal articles
on-line- this is an important part of many students' work. What we
already have is wonderful.
11. I appreciate the journals that are currenlty available on line
and would like to have that continue to increase
12. On the whole I enjoy and am satisfied by the library services,
especially the fact that we have electronic access to many
journals.
13. The library materials (electronic journals and books) are
incredible and so useful.
14. electronic resources are the way to go!
15. Almost any electronic journal can be found online.
16. I very much like the electronic access to journals, especially
proxy access from home.
17. I use the online resources a lot.
18. The electronic resources are excellent
19. I'm a surgical resident at the hospital. I feel the physical
and virtual collections of the library are one of the greatest
assets of this institution.
20. services like JSTOR are very helpful
21. Great selection of databases.
22. I am constantly astounded by what is available, electronically,
through the Library portal.
23. I am amazed at the amount of services available on line.
24. Hi, I love the U of C library systems the staff is amazing and
the online resources are top notch. Well run!
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