Dear Sir/Madam,

We are researching the "social life" of the Los Alamos Physics Archive. In collaboration with Paul Ginsbarg, founder of the archive, we hope our results will improve archive services to users.

Our results are revealing many interesting aspects of the archive. For example, between 1991 and 2000 the ratio of citations to articles in arXiv has increased from 1 in 20 to 9 in 20.

You, as an arXiv author, can provide us with information that we cannot obtain from the archive data. For instance, what proportion of papers do authors deposit in arXiv.

So that you might assist us I have attached a short questionnaire and would be grateful for your co-operation in replying either by email or by filling in a web form:

http://fluffy.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/opcit/survey/form.php3?ref=$authorref

To find out more about what we're doing please visit:

http://fluffy.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/opcit/
http://fluffy.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ijh198/opcit/

I would also be pleased to hear any comments, questions or criticisms you have; either email me or leave a comment on the site.


Yours faithfully,

	Tim Brody
Email: 			tdb198@soton.ac.uk
Web: 	http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/
Open Citation Project: http://opcit.eprints.org/
Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

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Q1. 	What subject areas of arXiv are you subscribed to for the email
	alerting service (specify One or More)?

(acc-phys,adap-org,alg-geom,ao-sci,astro-ph,atom-ph,bayes-an,
chao-dyn,chem-ph,cmp-lg,comp-gas,cond-mat,cs,dg-ga,func-an,
gr-qc,hep-ex,hep-lat,hep-ph,hep-th,math,math-ph,mtrl-th,
neuro-dev,neuro-sys,nlin,nucl-ex,nucl-th,patt-sol,phys-lib,
physics,plasm-ph,q-alg,quant-ph,solv-int,supr-con)


Q2. 	Apart from the email alerting service, how do you find papers in
	arXiv (specify One or More, write no(s) below)?

	[1. Browsing] [2. Citations] [3. Spires]
	[4. Links From Other Sources] [Other - Please sepcify]


Q3.	What criteria do you use when looking for papers in arXiv
	(specify One or More, write no(s) below)?

	[1. Papers by recognised authors]
	[2. Titles/Abstracts related to my research]
	[3. New Papers]
	[4. Articles that have been Published]
	[Other - Please Specify]


Q4.	Do you try to locate cited papers in arXiv that do not have an
	explicit arXiv ID in the reference (i.e. the reference only points
	to a journal publication or other non-arXiv source)?

	[Yes] [No]


Q5.	In which subject areas of arXiv do you deposit articles
	(specify One or More)?

(acc-phys,adap-org,alg-geom,ao-sci,astro-ph,atom-ph,bayes-an,
chao-dyn,chem-ph,cmp-lg,comp-gas,cond-mat,cs,dg-ga,func-an,
gr-qc,hep-ex,hep-lat,hep-ph,hep-th,math,math-ph,mtrl-th,
neuro-dev,neuro-sys,nlin,nucl-ex,nucl-th,patt-sol,phys-lib,
physics,plasm-ph,q-alg,quant-ph,solv-int,supr-con)


	Do you cross-list your articles in other subject areas
	(specify ONE)?

	[1. Never] [2. Once] [3. Occasionally] [4. Always]


Q6.	In what initial state do you most commonly deposit articles to arXiv
	(specify ONE)?

	[1. Work-in-Progress] [2. Unrefereed Preprints]
	[3. In between Pre-print/Publication]
	[4. Refereed Post-print]


Q7.	If your article is accepted by a refereed publication do you replace
	the pre-print in arXiv with the refereed version (specify ONE)?

	[1. Never] [2. Occasionally] [3. Mostly] [4. Always]


Q8.	Have all your papers been deposited in arXiv?

	[Yes] [No]


	If not, why?


	Approximately what proportion of your papers have been deposited in
	arXiv (in %)?


Q9.	Do you cite un-refereed pre-print articles?

	[Yes] [No]


Q10.	Does depositing your articles in arXiv improve your impact as an
	author (specify ONE)?

	[1. Doesn't] [2. A Little] [3. Some] [4. A Lot] [5. Don't Know]

	Why do you believe it affects your impact in this way?


Thank you for your cooperation, please return to tdb198@ecs.soton.ac.uk.