1. Where do you work/study?
Education: college (62/406 responses) 
Education: K-12 (11/406 responses) 
Education: university (253/406 responses) 
Industry / Business (30/406 responses) 
Other (50/406 responses) 97.01% of the people who took this survey
(390 / 402) answered this question.
Other Responses (50 for this question) "Agricultural" "agronomist" "archaeology" "ARCHITECTURE" "banking" "Egyptology" "electrical engineering" "emploee" "engineering" "graduate Academy" "hospital" "human resourse" "industrial engineering" "institute" "managment" "master degree" "medical" "medicine"( 3 ) responses "other"( 26 ) responses "political" "publishing" "research" "Research Center" 2. What do you do?
Researcher (122/401 responses) 
Librarian (10/401 responses) 
Faculty (30/401 responses) 
Student (170/401 responses) 
Teacher (38/401 responses) 
Other (31/401 responses) 96.52% of the people who took this survey
(388 / 402) answered this question.
Other Responses (31 for this question) "CEO" "construction" "consultant" "engineer"( 2 ) responses "Engineer/scientist" "Engineering"( 2 ) responses "maneger" "Msc student" "ophthalmogist" "other"( 16 ) responses "Patr time researcher" "Principal" "supervisor" "writer" 3. What type of computer are you using?
Don't know (31/392 responses) 
Unix-based (1/392 responses) 
Mac (5/392 responses) 
PC (330/392 responses) 
Other (25/392 responses) 96.02% of the people who took this survey
(386 / 402) answered this question.
Other Responses (25 for this question) "apple" "dell" "Dell Inspiron 1525" "hp" "Lab top" "labtop" "laptop"( 3 ) responses "Laptops" "net book windows" "other"( 14 ) responses 4. What is the speed/type of connection are you using?
Slower than 14.4kbps (17/383 responses) 
14.4 kbps (19/383 responses) 
28.8 kbps (23/383 responses) 
36.6 kbps (12/383 responses) 
56 kbps (57/383 responses) 
ISDN (45/383 responses) 
Ethernet (45/383 responses) 
T1 (7/383 responses) 
Cable modem (51/383 responses) 
Don't know (107/383 responses) 95.27% of the people who took this survey
(383 / 402) answered this question.
5. Are you familiar with Adobe PDF?
Yes (364/381 responses) 
No (17/381 responses) 94.78% of the people who took this survey
(381 / 402) answered this question.
6. Are you familiar with online databases?
Yes (285/389 responses) 
No (104/389 responses) 96.77% of the people who took this survey
(389 / 402) answered this question.
7. If you are from a university, does your institution accept electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)?
No (42/381 responses) 
Not from a university (56/381 responses) 
Yes (283/381 responses) 94.78% of the people who took this survey
(381 / 402) answered this question.
8. If your institution does not accept ETDs, do you think it should?
No opinion (106/352 responses) 
Yes (199/352 responses) 
No (47/352 responses) 87.56% of the people who took this survey
(352 / 402) answered this question.
9. Have you ever submitted an ETD?
No (274/376 responses) 
Yes (102/376 responses) 93.53% of the people who took this survey
(376 / 402) answered this question.
10. For what purpose are you using this digital library?
Check all that apply.
Research (334/493 responses) 
Job related (35/493 responses) 
Personal interest (63/493 responses) 
Learning about ETD's (52/493 responses) 
Other (9/493 responses) 94.78% of the people who took this survey
(381 / 402) answered this question.
Other Responses (9 for this question) "curiousity" "finish the study" "other"( 6 ) responses "school" 11. Did you download any ETDs?
If so, how many?
more than 10 (57/373 responses) 
6-10 (15/373 responses) 
3-5 (43/373 responses) 
1-2 (66/373 responses) 
Didn't download any ETDs. (192/373 responses) 92.79% of the people who took this survey
(373 / 402) answered this question.
12. If you downloaded any ETDs, how did you find them?
Please select all that apply.
Browsed by department (104/395 responses) 
Browsed by author (64/395 responses) 
Searched (227/395 responses) 78.11% of the people who took this survey
(314 / 402) answered this question.
13. If you downloaded any ETDs, how easy was it to find what you were looking for?
Very difficult (15/306 responses) 
Difficult (82/306 responses) 
Fairly easy (83/306 responses) 
Easy (74/306 responses) 
Very easy (52/306 responses) 76.12% of the people who took this survey
(306 / 402) answered this question.
14. If you searched for an ETD, how fast was the response to your search request?
Haven't searched (37/341 responses) 
Very slow (15/341 responses) 
Slow (67/341 responses) 
Fairly fast (83/341 responses) 
Fast (93/341 responses) 
Very fast (46/341 responses) 84.83% of the people who took this survey
(341 / 402) answered this question.
15. How often do you plan to use Virginia Tech's ETD library?
Rarely (51/347 responses) 
Occasionally (82/347 responses) 
Monthly (48/347 responses) 
Weekly (110/347 responses) 
Daily (56/347 responses) 86.32% of the people who took this survey
(347 / 402) answered this question.
16. How often do you plan to use other ETD libraries?
Occasionally (91/361 responses) 
Monthly (45/361 responses) 
Weekly (117/361 responses) 
Daily (66/361 responses) 
Rarely (42/361 responses) 89.8% of the people who took this survey
(361 / 402) answered this question.
Additional comments:
Please provide any comments about Virginia Tech's ETDs.
Text Responses (147 for this question) "a better search system for topic specific dissertations is needed. Departmental classification is insufficient." "A list of departments would be helpful, to know what letter the department is under. Also a way to search on papers that could be under more than one dept. For example: micro-biological internal corrosion of steel piping, could be under Chemistry, Biology, Metallurgy, Civil Engineering, etc." "a search engine would be favourable" "agriculturl reaserch phD" "Allow for searching by department" "animal and poultry was better separated" "By dept. filing system is not helpful for searching if we have the author's name" "contains many data" "convinient for research" "Design of Fixed Wireless Terminal Device Based On GSM Module TC35" "distribute the ETDs by subjec vise and provide search facilities" "dna yhanx forthe help and referencece's" "downloading ETDs is so easy if by searching" "Excellent" "FINE" "good" - ( 10 responses) "good good good good good" "Good knoledge data base" "good plan" "GOOD!" "goog" "hello" "Hello.I am from Turkey." "hope to provide new vertical searching engine for easy retrieval" "how to build a vehicle tracking system" "I am a newcomer,Thanks for your help!" "i am here for the first time. But i think it is interesting to find out my materials from this site. any way thanks a lot for all people working in this site." "i appreciate it" "I desire some ETD on academic Library Automation" "I Did not found any research about multimedia using and audio and video processing" "I don't use it before." "I have no comments now." "I hope Virginia Tech's ETDs supply simply and rapidly serve ." "i hope i found my needs here" "i hope i'll find what i need" "i hope thet it can be usfull" "i like the place" "i like too much" "I need your assistance to asses a thesis on minimax control chart for multivariate quality control by Sepulveda 1996" "i thank all the staf in this web" "I think it is a good platform to search." "I think it's very good and provide convenience." "i think its very good" "I think that's a good method to get the ETDs.It's easy and quick!" "I think there should be a general subject search for purposes of interdepartmental research." "i want thank you for all this ressources . thank you so much. maxim" "I want theses for master's and Ph.D. Using of cotton stalks pellets as environmental friendly fuel" "i want to find a subject for dessertation" "i want your help to write my essay for master degree in rheumatology" "I wish every ETD libraries be free." "i would like to look for phd thesis for doing my phd.kindly provide any information to help me to do my phd i am looking to do my phd in powersystem and power electronics area. i want to do my phd in usa what are the possible ways. kindly provide the suggestions" "If you arranged the program in department, it will be easy to get what we want." "Is there any Chinese version for Chinese readers ?" "It is a great database for student and researcher" "it is good" "it is good source for reference for doing Ph.D." "it is so helpful" "it is very good usefull link." "It is what any researcher would like to live in" "It's fantastic that I found it!" "it's not clearly, i hope more this is" "it's very good!" - ( 2 responses) "it's very interesseted" "It's very useful to me." "Its a very good approach to facilitate the users." "its more useful to me for finding some research ideas" "Its new to me. I would like to learn how to use it." "its very good for student" "know little" "let me see see" "long live" "Making users more easier and free!" "Mitral-valve Repair" "more Humanized" "more papers" "My ETD is not here, but I graduated in 2008." "Nazife" "need arabic lanng" "nerver use" "nice" - ( 2 responses) "NO AIDEA" "no any comments" "no comments" "none" "Please provide any comments about Virginia Tech's ETDs" "please provide more articles about ceramic membranes" "pls add search engine, so that I an enter keywords either by author or by title of the thesis" "quite good" "solar energy" "Speech signal processing" "thaks" "thank u fo this site mmmmmmmm" "thank u so much V U" "Thank you" "Thank you for this valuable information that we can get it from this library.I hope you proceed doing the best. Good Luck Virginia Tech's ETDs" "THANK YOU FOR ETDS" "thank you very much" "Thank you very much for your help to us as researchers But we want to support the historical and political" "thank's" "thanks" - ( 3 responses) "thanks and thanks and thanks" "thanks for site." "thanks~" "The ETD libraries are very good!!" "There is no problem at present." "There should be a provision for subject search" "Think searching by individual department would make it better." "This is really a very good liberay which i can learn much." "To add more channels for searching,please." "try it on" "useful" "User friendly, not sure about new web page" "very good" - ( 6 responses) "Very good boy" "VERY GOOD!" - ( 2 responses) "very good, provide more free papers" "very good." "very goog" "very helpfull Tech's ETDs for international students." "very nice" - ( 2 responses) "very thanks" "virginia tech has a big e library." "Virginia Tech's ETDs are very interesting" "well" "where is linguistics?" "You guys have been so terrific, thanks" "شكرا"
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