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I would like to have more electric journals and list of the accessible Journals..
Staff, Biology
Great service and location. My biggest suggestion is to increase the number of journals (vs. books) in the library and keep making things accessible from home online. (That feature is awesome.
Faculty, Kinesiology
Provide more journals, and let us check them out like other books in library
Undergrad, Sociology
My main need is to have quick and easy access to electronic journals. However, most generals I need are not available on-line.
Faculty, Materials Science
I use the databases very often and am quite dissatisfied by the fact that often for many journals, the archives either do not go back far enough, or provide full copies of the articles in pdf or html format.
Faculty, Marketing
It's painful while reading an abstract for a wonderful article only to find that you can't get the full article because the library doesn't carry it. it happens all the time and it's somewhat rare to find something i can use for my research. i'm very disapointed in that.
Undergrad, Psychology
The more electronic acces to peer reviewed journals the better. It has been so helpful to have access to materials from my computer.
Faculty, Educ Tech
The overall service of Albertsons Library is as good as it gets anywhere. The front desk and reference staff really work toward meeting any research need that might arise. My biggest gripe is the access to the electronic journals and articles. So many have to be ILLed. But then, we are not a rich private institute. In that way, the great service is the best compensation for any deficit of primary research material. The ILL staff is the best I've known in five institutions--two of which were rich and private.
Grad, History
Employee service at our library is good, especially in the reference, reserve, and archive staff. Print journals and serials and library hours (especially during holidays and summers) are poor for graduate and faculty study. Intersessions and holidays after 5 or 6 pm are precisely the times when I would use the library most (including the archive) if it were open. Our library is not much of a "getaway," to use a word in this study. The reading area for new arrivals is a nice addition; there should be a larger area with this sense of comfort in current periodicals. We should have the best holdings in town for contemporary creative writing journals (and this is not hard to do), but we don't. Grad students and faculty need to see paper copies of journals to which they are considering submitting work. The greater emphasis on grad programs calls for a larger periodical section and serials budget. Hooray for the McCain collection and the archive! Could the Foundation help solicit funds for another large bequest for current periodicals? Online subscriptions are good for research purposes, but should not replace a rich reading room. This is my top priority for library improvement. Our department periodical budget is insufficient, and some periodicals are microfilmed far too soon. Kudos to the staff for providing professional service on slender resources!
Faculty, English
I have enjoyed being able to access and print electronic
articles in my areas of research. Thank s to all the
librarians who have helped make this possible.
Faculty, Electrical Engineering
More and more, what I find that I need is additional online resources. For instance, ABI Inform would be incredibly useful to me. I know these services are expensive but I fine that lately all most all of my research is conducted from my office.
Faculty, IPT
I think that the electronic library for Information Systems is kind of out dated. Doesn't seem to have up to date stuff.
Grad, NOIS
I'm in an online program, so accessing information from my home is most important to me.
Grad, IPT
Would really like to increase our collection of on-line journals.
Faculty, Nursing
The major reason I gave the library a low score is because of the serious lack of availability to electronic journals in the biological/biomedical arena. The rapid access to information is essential for researchers to compete for grant funding at the national level and for our university to progress towards becoming a "metropolitan research university of distinction". Although, the library currently provides PDF files of requested journal articles within 3-7 days, this lack of inmediate acess to information has serious consequences on designing experiments and writing grants given the competing time demands on faculty and student researchers.
Faculty, Biology
There is a vast difference in the quality of staff and their service in the area of supporting colleges and departments. We are not keeping up with the literature in fast moving areas, and losing ABI was a major blow to business education. BSP is not an equivalent product even tho it was marketed that way.
Faculty, NOIS
On-line articles and databases need to be organized in a more logical way. Tracking down journal articles can be a nightmare due to multiplicity of services and search options. This leads to much duplicated effort and frustration and not much in the way of results. Finding articles without wasting a huge amount of time would be nice.
Faculty, History
I see the biggest problem as the lack of immediate access to on-line scientific journal articles.
Faculty, Biology
I think the library staff are very helpful. The primary problem with the library is the lack of journals important to my field, and the lack of electronic subscriptions. For example, the university does not have electronic subscriptions to Science, Nature, or Geological Society of America publications. The development of the ability to download individual articles from Elsevier journals is a positive step forward.
Faculty, Geosciences
More electronic journal articles for easy access
Faculty, IPT
I would like access to more electronic journals
Faculty, Math
Journal collections are very poor and prohibitive for conducting research
Faculty, Curriculum
Two biggest needs:
1. remove electronic embargo on current year Science and Nature journals (worlds most timely articles!)
2. Need to extend Web of Science to 10 years
Faculty, Geosciences
Lexus/Nexus Academic would help me with international newpaper and journal searches.
And I have some problems understanding if and which journals we have electronic copies of, i.e., when I search for journals.
Otherwise I am very happy with the library and its resources.
Thank you.
I need access to the Lexus/Nexus newspaper database.
Faculty, Sociology
Three comments:
Beth Brin has been exceedlingly helpful, and has provided great library instruction for students in my undergraduate and graduate courses. Thank you Beth!
It is really awkward to work back and forth between the article indices and databases and access of the library's online journal holdings.
Finally, I hope that the library can invest in the full subscription to the SCI web of science. It is the best database by far, but limiting access to records from the last 5 years detracts from its usefulness.
Faculty, Civil Engineering
I think the library is very good, especially for the limited budget. I am worried that we will lose paper journals in preference for electronic formats. I think we need both. Browsing on the computer is still taxing on the eyes. For example, we no longer get many IEEE journals in paper. This lack is potentially a huge problem.
No listing for research professor!!
Faculty, Geosciences
I would like to see more on line journals for music and music education. I would also like to see hard copy journals housed in the library. Currently, I have to keep these in my office and students are not always able to have open access to them as they would in the library.
Faculty, Music
Our library is not very good in the journal holdings in my discipline, but does compensate for this by having a pretty decent interlibrary loan system. It would be so much nicer if we had a competitive library with others that support graduate studies in the sciences. As it is, I use other more established academic libraries for most of my literature needs. Our library probably only has 1 out of every 5 papers that I need. This inadequacy is always hard to work around when hiring new people into our department. That being said, SciFi Scholar is an incredible resource and greatly aids me in my work. It is also something that incoming candidates find encouraging as well. If only we could improve our overall journal holdings.
Faculty, Chemistry
Significant improvements necessary in access to and quantity of digital materials, especially research
Faculty, Ed Tech
I access information almost exclusively through on-line sources, and use the electronic indexes several times a week. I rarely go to the library itself for information, but could not do my job without the electronic indexes.
Faculty, Special Ed
I think electronic journals are great BUT sometimes different data bases do not provide links to full articles AND there needs to be a time overlap bewteen having electronic access and losing print access as some journals are still not online and others are only for the last year or two. I understand it is costly but nothing can fuly replace print material.
Faculty, Sociology
In general, I like the staff and services provided by the library. I would like more electronic subscriptions to journals in my field.
Faculty, Chemistry
The library is woefully behind on its ability to provide useful, up to date, academic electronic journals and search engines. If the university is serious about becoming a research university, a significant emphasis will have to be placed on increasing the library's services.
Faculty, Public Policy
I am satisfied with the service and personnel. There are not enough periodicals/journals available. The availability of Elsevier journals electronically improved the situation A LOT! However, there are many journals which are not accessible.
Faculty, Materials Science
Business Source Premier seems to have access to fewer complete articles than ABI/Inform. Abstracts just don't serve as an adequate substitute.
Faculty, Marketing
The journals that we subscribe to may be becoming less significant because of electronic and interlibrary loan access, but using such resources is not as efficient as it would be to have the journals here.
Faculty, Chemistry
My particular subdiscipline is not well represented in the library, particularly within academic journals.
Faculty, Kinesiology
The Library's policy of offering microfilm copies of professional journals rather than making hard copies available is horrible! It deters students from using journals and complicates faculty research. This policy is the single greatest weakness in the Library and seems more in line with a junior college than a metropolitan research university of distinction. As a result of this policy, I have often waited to do my research in professional journals at university libraries in neighboring states.
Faculty, Undecided
Please continue the move toward electronic journals, along with increasing the number of back issues for the existing electronic journal collection. It's a great help
Faculty, Biology
They do a good job with the resources they have. I would like more journal subscriptions.
Faculty, Management
Please get more journals online that offer full PDF copies of articles. Interlibrary loan takes far too long compared to searching a database.
Undergrad, Biology
The overall performence of the library is very good. I would request to get more research journals (Elsevier, springer link , IOP etc.) which would help the research community and the Boise State University.
Faculty, Physics
When trying to access certain journal articles, some of the ones I needed where not available, only the citation. Frustrating!
Undergrad, Accountancy
Would like to see a few more publications available, a majority of the time I click on on article link (within the list from Alberton's library) to find that I have to pay for it.
Undergrad, Communication
I wish there was a larger selection of biology journals, especially available in electronic format.
Faculty, Biology
The online site for the library is absolutely wonderful. Having 24/7 access to those electronic journal articles (especially the full text) have been a true blessing and made doing papers and things of that nature wonderfully more convenient. Keep up the good work! Thank you!
Undergrad, Management
This is an EXCELLENT library but the electronic holdings (journals, etc.) are hard to use because so many titles, issues, or articles are not available electronically. The search mechanisms for these documents are inadequate, in my view. ---I should note that I work in Ed Tech but most of my research is in writing and cinema.
Staff, English
For the most part I have found the library to be very helpful. When I was researching literary topics for both my undergrad and graduate degrees I often found that necessary scholarly journals were not available.
Staff, English