JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
Website: note the search box! IReL Impact Survey 2009
The search box located just below the A survey to establish the impact of IReL, the Irish Research eLibrary, on
University logo on the left side of the researchers’ work will take place in Spring 2009. This survey will build on an
Library website is a real time saver. You equivalent exercise in 2007 which generated a range of positive feedback about the
can enter a word or phrase and locate value of IReL and has influenced continued funding of this resource by the Higher
matching pages on the site in an instant. Education Authority and Science Foundation Ireland.
A new feature, illustrated below, enables In 2007 one disappointment was the modest response rate of 19% nationally, and a considerably higher
automatic searching of your search figure is the aim this time, not least because the current economic climate poses some threat to
terms in the Library catalogue as well. continued funding at current levels. It will be vital to send a strong signal to funders regarding the
importance of IReL to the research community and high participation will help with this. The 2009
survey will be shorter and very tightly focused on impact issues, so should not take long to complete.
More details will be provided soon.
It is worth noting that feedback from the 2007 survey facilitated a number of new subscriptions
identified by researchers, eg SPIE Digital Library, Environment and Planning A-D and the Irish Times
archive.
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