Resources for the Future/The American Council Learned Societies Poll: Survey of Scholars
Creators: name: Societies, The American Council Learned
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Describing professional scholarly discipline (1); rank of employment (1); degree completion (1); membership in professional societies (1); societal involvement over part three years (5); opinion of professional associations (2); describing primary employment (1); classification of college/university (1); characterizing institution type, selectivity, calendar (3); teaching rank (1); tenure status (1); dates of personal achievements (1); department offering graduate degrees (1); graduate vs. undergraduate teaching load (1); annual teaching load (1); job satisfaction (1); humanist vs. social scientist (1); access to a library (1); rating institution's library (12); unnecessary inconveniences due to library (4); familiarity with microfiche (1); library carrying microfiche and reader (2); satisfaction with using microfiche (4); familiarity with using online databases (1); availability of online database searches (1); person doing the research (1); financer of research (1); satisfaction with research results (1); computerized computer catalog (1); using the catalog (1); effects of use of computerized catalog (5); university providing seminar/tutorial on how to use library resources (4); rating importance of resource materials (6); subscriptions to scholarly journals (2); decreased subscriptions to scholarly journals (2); monitoring other scholarly journals (1); reading specific scholarly publications (5); purchasing books for personal library (1); opinions on the scholarly publishing system (4); cost of books/journals/society dues (2); publication experience (11); experiences (6); departmental co-worker experiences (3); experiences outside of department (2); importance of pre-publication material (1); number of journals last article was submitted to (1); opinion of wait time between submission and publication (1); method of dissertation publication (1); bias of peer review refereeing system (4); opinions of scholarly publication process (5); supplying manuscript to publisher as tape, diskette, or machine readable form (1); use of a word processor to prepare materials (1); level of computing skills (4); type(s) of computer respondent has access to (4); using a computer in research or teaching (4); location of closest computer (1); availability of computer (1); importance of various computer uses (16); personal use of computer (1); computer ownership (4); year purchased/obtained computer (1); make/model of computer (1); items owned/loaned for computer (1); transferring files between computers (1); reason for purchasing computer (1); funding for all computer related activities (1); satisfaction with software (5); desired software respondent is unable to purchase (1); writing a program (2); problems with using computers at institution (1); computers impacting certain areas of research (7); computer experience as a graduate student (1); institution's encouragement of undergraduate use of computers (1); computers impacting intellectual progress within discipline (1); computers impacting how discipline is taught to undergraduates (1).