Hello to the list,

I've recently been hired as the Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian at
American University.  Part of my mission here is to incorporate electronic
serials into our print serials collection.  My understanding is (excuse
me--I've only been here a week and a half!) is that we have many members
of the teaching faculty who are eager to have access to online serials.  I
am very interested in doing a survey of the faculty to ascertain such
things as follows below, and I'm wondering if anyone out there has
conducted such a survey.  I'd like to know:

1)How they faculty members defining electronic journals?  Are they
including online full-text selections of print journals?  Journals
published online only? Newsgroups, listservs, computer conferences?

2)What benefits do they perceive the availability of electronic journals
will afford them, besides ease of possible desk-top access?

3)How many faculty on campus are participating in scholarly activities on
the internet?  Have any of them published in electronic journals?  Do they
plan too?

4)What electronic resources are they currently utilizing, and how
important do they see them to their scholarly activities?  If these
resources were available through the library would they encourage their
students to access them as relevant to course content?

I could continue, but I think this gives the list a good idea of what kind
of information I'm seeking.  I'm very interested in what others have done
in gathering this information.  (I guess I should say that my strong
interest is in how new, online-only, peer-reviwed publications are
impacting the way scholarship is being done...  The list of these titles
seems to be growing exponentially.)

In advance, thanks.

Claire Dygert
Head, Serials Department
American University Library
cdygert@american.edu