The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Educational Technology: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Educational Technology, ISBN 1- 57440-142-4 presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness of college library technology centers and other forms of educational technology such as course management systems, clickers, document cameras, electronic and interactive whiteboards, in-class use of video and internet access, PowerPoint and other technologies. The report also presents data on faculty evaluation of the effectiveness of their college’s information technology training for faculty, and information on how faculty view the teaching distance learning courses. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and other Cyber Resources: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts Index, to Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and other Cyber Resources, (ISBN 1-57440-141-6) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts to further scholarship based on internet sources such as websites, blogs, listervs, social networking sites, online ads and other internet resources. The report presents highly detailed data on how faculty use blogs, websites, social networking sites, email archives, listservs, webcasts and podcasts, ezines, online ads and other cyber resources in scholarship. It also highlights how faculty rate the efforts of academic libraries to index, preserve and catalog these resources. In addition, the report discusses other pertinent trends, such as the degree of use of web archiving software. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Grants, Research Funding & Oversight: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Grants, Research Funding & Oversight presents data on the prevailing conditions in obtaining grants and other forms of research support for higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. The report gives extensive data on number of grants applied for this year and last, the percentage of faculty who currently have funding, the percentage of faculty who have ever received a grant of more than $10,000 and the percentage of total grants received accounted for by funds from US or Canadian federal government sources. Survey participants also give their impressions of trends in grant acceptance rates in their disciplines. The report also covers internal grants, estimating the total percentage of research support accounted for by transfers within the college or university itself, and relating which faculty tend to get these grants. The study also presents hard figures on the frequency and size of discretionary grants. In addition, The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Grants, Research Funding & Oversight, gives highly detailed information on faculty supervision of student research, and faculty participation as referees and judges for research journals. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in the Awarding of Tenure: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in the Awarding of Tenure (ISBN 1- 57440-140-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the process of attaining tenure. The reports presents data on the percentage of faculty who have tenure, or are on a tenure or non-tenure track. For faculty without tenure it gives their view on their expectations of achieving tenure, and their estimate on the change in the ease or difficulty in achieving tenure over the past five years. In addition, it reports results on what faculty view as the primary criteria for tenure at their institutions, and the length of time typically required for tenure review. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access: The Survey of Highr Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians and who does not? Who has been approached by librarians to contribute articles to repositories? Who among faculty sypathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library, college or academic department? How many and which faculty understand the terms digital repository or open access as they are used in an academic library context? The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Level of Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on what academic libraries should be spending more money on, rendering judgments on journals, books, e-books, workstations and other info technologies, library facilities and even additional librarians. The report also details level of faculty satisfaction with library creature comforts, information literacy efforts, hours of access, research support for faculty, collection adequacy and other areas. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty Use of Library Reference, Info Literacy and Subject Specialist Staff: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Library Reference, Info Literacy and Subject Specialist Staff, ISBN 1-57440-138-6, presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States & Canada use the virtual reference services, subject specialists and info literacy staff of their academic library. It includes specific data on the percentage of faculty that use virtual reference, how often they use it, and similar data on awareness and use of library subject specialists, as well as data on contact with information literacy staff and tendency to incorporate info literacy concepts into teaching. The Survey of Higher Education Faculty

The Survey of Economists: Prospects for European Economic Recovery August 2009 Edition: The Survey of Economists: Prospects for European Economic Recovery, August 2009 Edition, presents data from interviews with more than 100 economists from major universities, research institutes and private companies on the present and near future for the economies of Europe. Data is broken out by the political inclination, geographic location and professional affiliation of the economists surveyed. Coverage includes fiscal policy advice for the major European states, views of the accuracy of EEC Commission economic forecasts, approaches to resolving the Euro-area banking crisis and the long term economic impact of this crisis, wisdom of the European Central Bank's asset purchasing policies, sources of demand for future growth, likely exchange rate developments and many other issues affecting Europe's economic recovery. The Survey of Economists

The Survey of American College Students: Student Library Research Practices & Skills: This report looks closely at the research practices and skills of a sample of 400 U.S. college students. The 150+ page report presents detailed data on just how American college students use their library to complete research assignments. The report answers questions such as: which American students are being assigned research papers and which are not? What research sources do students use to complete their research assignments? Which use only major search engines or Wikipedia? Which use print resources? Library furnished databases? How familiar are students with the concept of plagiarism? Are students confident in their research abilities? Do they know how to use citation software? Do they feel that their librarians help them to use the available resources? The Survey of American College Students