P. Ganesan ¹, D. Kirana Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Alagappa University, Karaikudi - 630 003, IN
2 Koshys Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Questionnaire plays a vital role in conducting research. Construction of questionnaire is an art and needs more knowledge on subject, grammar and English language. It is one of the data collection tools and it is widely used in survey method. Online questionnaire is the gift of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which helps to collect, analyse, evaluate and interpret data through online. This study compared and evaluated the different services and features offered by the online questionnaire tools.

Keywords

Online Questionnaire, Service Provider, Social Science Research, Survey Method.

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P. Ganesan ¹, Francis Jayakanth ¹, T. B. Rajashekar ¹

Affiliations
1 National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, IN

Abstract

Science Citation Index (SCI) is a key database used by the research community in Indian Institute of Science. As this database was not available for access on the campus network, its offline usage was sub-optimal. To improve its usage we developed a profile-based E-Mail alerting service called Citation Alert Service. Every time an update database disc is received, the system automatically delivers, to the E-Mail address of individual faculty, details of his/her recent research papers indexed in the update disc, and papers that are citing his/her publications. Key issues to be considered in the system design are unattended processing of the update disc, and E-Mail delivery of downloaded records. We discuss in detail the design and implementation aspects of the system. E-Mail offers a convenient, fast and in-expensive mode of operating profile-based alerting services.

Keywords

Science Citation Index, Citation Data Delivery, E-Mail Alert Service, Citation Alert Service.

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