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         ekrysiak@biblnar.bn.org.pl
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         ekrysiak@plearn.edu.pl
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 20:05:02 CET
From: Ewa Krysiak, The National Library <EKRYSIAK@plearn.edu.pl>
To: ekrysiak@biblnar.bn.org.pl

Dear Slavs from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe, former Soviet Union:

I wish to ask you kindly to spare a few moments and read this message.
Thank you.

                         *  *  *
I have been asked to prepare a paper on "The Process of Scholarly
Communication: the East European Angle"  for Third European Serials
Conference (European Federation of Serials Groups) to be held in Dublin,
Ireland, Trinity College, 25 - 27 September 1996. I am absolutely
convinced it will be a matter of real interest for conference participants
to have a contribution to consider which looks at these important issues
from a point of view that will be absolutely unfamiliar to many of them.
I can try and address several issues concerning Polish situation, however,
I would be more than happy to be able to broaden this view and include
experiences of my colleagues from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe and
former Soviet Union, the countries that for several years are experiencing
great transformations.

Below please find several questions I would kindly ask you to answer in order
to help me to depict your situation, and if you think of anything else to be
worth adding/mentioning, do not hesitate and do so. You can answer the
questionnaire electronically BUT be sure not to reply automatically, and send
the answer to the discussion list itself. I promise to sum up the results of
the questionnaire on the list but please respond directly to my e-mail address,
which is as follows:

         ekrysiak@biblnar.bn.org.pl
                     or
         ekrysiak@plearn.edu.pl

Thank you for your attention and help. Warm greetings,

 Ewa Krysiak

Head, Union Catalogs and Electronic Information Center
The National Library. 00-973 Warsaw 22 POB 36
Al. Niepodleglosci 213, Poland.
tel. (+48-22)608-2357 fax: (+48-22)608-2630

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                     THIRD EUROPEAN SERIALS CONFERENCE
                            QUESTIONNAIRE
       "The Process of Scholarly Communication: the East European Angle"

1. How are individual libraries in your country:
   a. academic/research
   b. public
   c. national
   d. special
   e. other
   coping with the acquisition of printed serials, domestic and foreign:
   a. purchase/subscription
   b. exchange
   c. gifts/donations
   d. legal deposit?

2. Are many (how much in per cent) cancellations being made because of the
   escalation of serial prices:
   a. domestic                %
   b. foreign                 %               ?

3. Is there any coordination of foreign serials acquisition in your country
   in order to acquire more for lesser cost (eg. only one copy of an expensive
   serial title held in one library)?
   a. Yes:
   b. No:

4. If Yes, what are:
   a. the forms:

   b. the financial means support:

   c. the methods:

   Please. Describe in a few sentences.

5. What are the sources of financing the acquisition of printed serials
   in your library/country?
   a. budget                 Yes             No
   b. special funds          Yes             No
   c. external sources       Yes             No
   d. other (please describe)Yes             No

6. What role is the national library in your country playing
   in providing access to scholars for serials information?
   a. compilation of the national bibliography covering domestic serials:
      - current              Yes             No
      - retrospective        Yes             No
   b. compilation of the union list of:
      - domestic serials     Yes             No
      - foreign serials      Yes             No
      held in domestic libraries?
   c. reference library of foreign serials bibliographic sources:
      - printed              Yes             No
      - electronic (offline) Yes             No
      - electronic (online)  Yes             No
   d. center for ILL         Yes             No
   e. domestic EDI/EDD       Yes             No
   f. other (please describe)Yes             No

7. How is electronic information beginning to affect the whole
   process of the scholarly communication?:
   a. online/offline(eg. CD-ROM) databases:
      - bibliographic
      - abstract
      - current contents
      - fulltext
   b. fulltext electronic journals
   c. are there e-journals existing in your country with no printed
      alternative?
      Yes               No
   d. are e-journals available to scholars?:
      - in libraries          Yes            No
      - on the Internet       Yes            No
        - WWW                 Yes            No
        - electronic subscription Yes        No
        - free of charge      Yes            No
   e. is there a reference service covering e-journals available throughout
      the world rendered at your library?
      Yes               No
   f. any comments?

8. What role does document delivery play in your country?
   a. name a few firms present on the market:

   b. comments:

9. What role does electronic document delivery play in your country?
   a. name a few firms present on the market:

   b. comment on technological infrastructure at your library that can handle
      EDI/EDD:

10. If scholars cannot get access to serials through libraries what other
    means are used:
    a. personal contacts                          Yes           No
    b. conferences                                Yes           No
    c. direct access to the Internet sources      Yes           No
    d. direct access to the commercial databases  Yes           No
    e. other (please describe:                    Yes           No

11. What role can play the cooperation between EU libraries and EE libraries in
    the provision of up-to-date scholarly information contained in serials?

12. How do you expect the serials market to look like in the nearest future?
    a. printed serials                                      %
    b. electronic serials with printed versions             %
    c. electronic serials with no printed versions available offline (eg.
       CD-ROM)                                              %
    d. electronic serials with no printed versions available online (eg. WWW)
                                                            %
    e. any comments:

13. In your opinion which version of the serial is:
                                           printed             electronic
    a. easier to acquire (please tick):
    b. cheaper to acquire:
    c. easier to provide access to:

14. Does legal deposit law free copies for special libraries (usually national
    libraries) in your country cover also electronic publications?
    a. serials                     Yes               No
    b. monographs                  Yes               No
    c. music                       Yes               No
    d. other (please name)         Yes               No

15. I do encourage you to make any comments linked with the topic discussed,
here:

16. Please give your name, institution name and electronic address here:

Thank you very much for your help. I do look forward to receive your responses
by 10 September 1996.