Survey

The History Cooperative is weighing the pros and cons of presenting online journals in a PDF file format (here is an example of a PDF article), as opposed to the current "live text" HTML file format (here is an example of an HTML article), and would like to have your opinion.

1. How do you use articles from the History Cooperative?
Read most articles online
Print most articles out
Browse, copy, and paste

2. What best describes your role/profession?
Undergraduate Student
Graduate Student
Professor/Teacher
Independent Scholar
Interested Public

3. How do you most often access the History Cooperative?
Dialup/Modem
DSL
Cable Modem
Wireless/Mobile
School/University connection

4. How easy or hard do you find the current History Cooperative site to use?
Very easy - like it a lot
Mostly easy to use
No feeling one way or the other
Slightly hard to use
Very hard to use


5. The History Cooperative currently presents journal material in HTML format. Some people prefer articles in PDF format. Do you have a preference? Here is a sample of each file type to help you judge.

       link to HTML sample article

       link to PDF sample article


I prefer the HTML article
I prefer the PDF article
I like both
No preference

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