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Chemistry 767: Chemical Information Retrieval
Drexel University, Summer 1995
Introductory Questionnaire

In order to tailor this course to your needs and background, I need to know more about you:

Name _________________________________ Student ID ______________________

Department ___________________________ Year of Graduate Study: 1 2 3 4 5

Drexel telephone extension (or, if a part-time student, a phone number at which you can be reached): ______________________________________

  1. What journals do you read or scan for your research?
  2. Have you authored or co-authored a paper in the chemical sciences or a related field? _____
    If so, please give a citation(s) [If you don't remember details, you can provide these later, but give the journals in which they were published.]
  3. How often do you use the Hagerty Library? ______________________
    What are your main activities there? If you regularly use another library other than Hagerty, please indicate which library.
  4. Do you have an account on a Drexel University computer? _____
    Which one(s)?
  5. What other computers do you use regularly, and where are they? Do you know if they have either dial-up or direct connections to the Drexel network?
  6. Do you use electronic mail on a regular basis? _____
    If so, what is your email address? ___________________________________
    How often do you check your mail? ____________________________________
    Do you know what your email software/hardware is? Quickmail/Localtalk (Apple Macintosh local area network) _____ Eudora/Sun 670 _____ TN 3270 or TinCan/IBM 9121 _____ Other ______________________________________________________ I have no idea: all this is Greek to me _________________
  7. Have you ever used the print version of Chemical Abstracts? _____
    If so, how may times in your graduate career? ________________________
  8. Have you ever done an on-line search of the Chemical Abstracts database? _____
    If so, how many have you done, and whose account were you using?
  9. Have your ever used any other database of chemical information, either over a dial-up link or directly from a hard disk or CD-ROM? _____
    If so, tell me about it.
  10. Have your ever used the chemical reference materials (as opposed to journals or monographs) in Hagerty Library? _____
    If so, which one(s)?
  11. Have you used Dragnet, Drexel's on-line library information system? _____
    If so, in Hagerty Library itself or from another computer? __________
  12. Do you keep a bibliography of journal articles and other references of importance in your research?_____
    If so, in what form? (i.e. index cards, written references in a notebook, database on a PC, engravings on clay tablets, …)
  13. Have you signed a “Dialog Agreement Form” at Hagerty Library to give you access to the DIALOG databases? YES _____ NO _____ If not, please do so quickly.
  14. What would you like to accomplish by taking this course?
  15. In a short paragraph, give your own definition of chemistry.
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