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. ******** 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 http://survey.utk.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=PRCSURVEY2 Thank you for your help. ************************************************ 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 --------- 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 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.