Dear Professional friends,

I am passing on a request from a professional friend – Dr. Suzie Allard, for help in conducting a survey.

The College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee is conducting a research study investigating the perceived value of several research publication characteristics. Please help in getting the survey distributed to your researchers who are readers of scholarly articles

Here is a personal request from one of the Principal Investigators – Dr. Suzie Allard.

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We hope you will answer this important survey about the characteristics of journal articles and the relative value of those characteristics to you in your role as a reader of scholarly articles. Your answers will help us better understand what is important to scholars. The questionnaire takes about 20 minutes to complete. This study is being conducted by Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, and Ben Bates at the University of Tennessee, College of Communication and Information.

If you have any questions about the study please contact research assistants Chris Caldwell at ccaldwe9@utk.edu or Ben Birch at wbirch@utk.edu .

The questionnaire link is http://survey.utk.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=PRCSURVEY2

Thank you for your help.

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Suzie Allard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Assistant Director

University of Tennessee

College of Communication & Information

School of Information Sciences

453 Communication Building

Knoxville, TN 37996-0341

phone: 865.974.1369

fax: 865.974.4967

email: sallard@utk.edu

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Dr. Shalini Urs

Executive Director and Professor

International School of Information Management

University of Mysore

Mysore - 570006

Phone : + 91 821 2514699

Fax : + 91 821 2519209

www.isim.ac.in

ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM