Hello Barbaros, It sounds like a good idea to try and ask people to engage with a survey if you will be seeing them at an event. And Survey Monkey offers a simple interface and some automated analysis.
But the questions to ask will be determined by what you want to find out. What is your main research question? Do you want to find out what they think about open access? How much they engage with open access? What they see as the barriers to open access? What they see as the benefits of open access? These are all different question areas. Are you intending to compare the situation in Turkey to elsewhere in the world? If so you might want to look at a comparable published article and look at the questionnaire used. If you ask similar questions you are then in a position to compare the results. You might also want to think about your analysis technique. If you ask questions that people answer in response to a statement on a scale of (for example) "Never" through to "All the time" you are able to analyse these in a way that you could not analyse free text answers to a question. So determine the type of survey you want to ask (in terms of future analysis), determine the main question you want answered and then you are in a position to work out the wording of your questions. I hope that helps and all the best. Danny Dr Danny Kingsley ------------------------------------------ Executive Officer Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) Menzies Library, Building 2 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia E: danny.kings...@anu.edu.au P: +612 6125 6839 W: http://aoasg.org.au T: @openaccess_oz Cricos Provider - 00120C -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Barbaros Akkurt Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013 5:17 AM To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Hello from Istanbul, Turkey (about a questionnaire on open access concept in Turkey) Greetings, I am a newbie volunteering to work about open access spirit and desiring to raise awareness in Turkish academic community. I have a simple question to you advanced people; I will attend a forum about open access movement in Turkey, and I would like to prepare a questionnaire intended for chemists and chemical engineers in Turkey. My question is very simple: Please send me sample questions which will be asked in the questionnaire. I am willing to finish collecting data on October 13, and the activity will commence on 21 October (due to a religious feast, it is almost impossible to collect data after October 13. The audience will be academicians, say, faculty members and assistants and academic people working as chemists or chemical engineers. I wanted to limit the occupation to these and the people working in Istanbul, Turkey. I am planning to prepare the questionnaire on Survey Monkey website? Is it a good plan? Many thanks for your replies. Best, Mr. Barbaros Akkurt, PhD Chemist, Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
