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Please Tell Us What You Think: February Trials 2011

Our purpose is to regularly seek faculty, staff, and student opinions of new electronic resources which the library could potentially offer.

SAGE Research Methods Online

DECISION TO SUBSCRIBE

This is a brand-new product which consolidates into one database all of the numerous publications from SAGE which address research methods and design.  This could become an essential tool for the many methods courses MSU offers in the social and behavioral sciences.  If you teach a methods course the library particularly wants your comments.

http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/srmo

If this were available through the library please tell us whether and how you would use it.

Please leave comments.  Especially let us know if you would use it for particular courses.

POLL RESULTS:

require my students to use this (for faculty): 5 votes
18.52%
encourage my students to use this (for faculty): 6 votes
22.22%
use this myself: 8 votes
29.63%
not use this because it is not good enough: 1 votes
3.7%
not use this because it is outside my areas of interest: 7 votes
25.93%

Total votes: 27

COMMENTS:

SAGE trial by John Modaff   Approve   Delete
Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 2:13 PM 

If allowed, I would have chosen both "encourage students to use" AND "use this myself," but the survey form only allows one selection. Thanks.

SAGE database by Lola Aagaard   Approve   Delete
Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 8:50 PM 

This would be an excellent resource to have at MSU, especially considering the new doctoral program in education has begun. Also, the EPSB mandated that masters students in education conduct an actual research project as a capstone before finishing the program and this database could be used as a refresher for students in the capstone process. I teach masters level research methods and I would use this database with my students in those courses. It can assist students' understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research.

Mergent Online

ACCESSIBLE FOR THE NEXT YEAR

Mergent (previously known as Moody's) is a business database which the library cancelled two years ago.  Since then they have added a significant amount of new content and are asking for a second chance.  So the library is interested in how the new and improved Mergent compares with the two other comparable business databases to which we currently subscribe (Hoover's and Standard & Poor's).

http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/mergent

If this were available through the library please tell us whether and how you would use it.

Please leave comments.  Especially let us know if you would use it for particular courses.

POLL RESULTS:

I like Hoover's best: 1 votes
20%
I like Standard & Poor's best: 2 votes
40%
Mergent is better than both: 1 votes
20%
Mergent comes in second: 0 votes
0%
Mergent comes in third: 1 votes
20%

Total votes: 5

COMMENTS:

Save money--if for general user by Fran Helphinstine   Approve   Delete
Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 8:13 AM 

Value Line combined with the Yahoo finance provides almost all these details for the general investor; but may not fit what the business professor needs.