INTRODUCTION: Interesting background to the survey.
SETTING THE SCENE: A World Wide Web (WWW) publishing scenario.

Questions

If you have answered Yes to either or both of questions 1 and 2, please answer the following questions. If you answered No for both, please go to question 9.

.........................................................................................................Y...N
3. Do you read articles on the WWW outside your own area of research?

Although the quality of publications varies across disciplines and different journals, please answer question 4 giving your general opinion using the following scale:

1 = Much worse
2 = Worse
3 = Same
4 = Better
5 = Much better

4a. For generally high quality, peer-reviewed research please rate material that you have read on the WWW relative to peer-reviewed material in print based journals:
.1....2....3....4....5

4b. For lower quality, but still peer-reviewed research please rate material that you have read on the WWW relative to peer-reviewed material in print based journals:
.1....2....3....4....5

5. On a scale of low, medium and high, please rate the relative abundance of:
a. high quality peer-reviewed research:
...........................................L....M....H
(i) on the WWW...............
(ii) in print based journals...
b. lower quality peer-reviewed research:
...........................................L....M....H
(i) on the WWW..............
(ii) in print based journals...

6a. If you consider print-based papers to differ in quality to WWW-based papers, please suggest reasons for the difference.

6b. If material relevant to your research appeared in both paper and electronic journals, which would you reference in your own work? Why?

7. What is your occupation and position?

8. How long have you used the WWW? Year(s).

9. Do you see publications on the WWW becoming more widely read and cited in the future?......................................................
....................................................................................Y...N
10. Would you like a copy of the results of this survey?..

Feel free to add any other comments on this survey.

Thank you very much for your time.

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