During the fall of 2003, Ithaka commissioned a large survey of faculty at colleges and universities in the United States to learn about their habits and preferences related to electronic research and teaching resources. More than 7,400 faculty from numerous academic disciplines responded. The study was designed to permit breakdowns by various criteria, including discipline and size of academic institution, as well as comparison with baseline findings from 2000.

Some of the findings that have proved to be of greatest interest focus on these topics:

• Perceptions of electronic resources
• Perceptions of libraries and specific library functions
• Disciplinary variations in research preferences
• Attitudes towards archiving of both print and electronic resources
• Attitudes towards journals

Publication:

• Bruce Heterick and Roger C. Schonfeld, “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be,” Serials 17, no. 3 (November 2004), 225-230

Presentations:

• Roger C. Schonfeld, “The Same . . . but Different: Varying User Behavior in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” The Charleston Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, November 3, 2005.
• Kevin Guthrie and Roger C. Schonfeld, “What Do Faculty Think of Electronic Resources? Findings from the 2003 Academic Research Resources Study,” with Kevin Guthrie, Coalition for Networked Information Spring Task Force Meeting, Alexandria VA, April 16, 2004.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, “New Trends in Faculty Use of Digital Resources,” CLIR Sponsors' Symposium: Learning and Libraries, Washington DC, April 13, 2004.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, “Findings from the 2003 Academic Research Resources Study,” JSTOR Sponsored Seminars: Current Trends in United Kingdom Higher Education and Further Education Libraries, Birmingham and London, UK, March 22 and 24, 2004.