TRIPLE Deliverable: D3.1 Iteration on the User Needs

The work reported in this deliverable (D3.1 Iteration on the user needs) follows the identification of users’ needs (D3.1 Report on the User needs) which was achieved with qualitative research.

This deliverable reports on the results obtained from the TRIPLE user questionnaire conducted as part of the Work Package 3 activities. The questionnaire was prepared with the purpose of obtaining a broader overview of the end-user needs for the GOTRIPLE platform. The key problem for the questionnaire was to answer the following main research question: “what is the perception of end-users on their discovery practices, networking practices, research tools and use and management of resources?”. The questionnaire was distributed for completion during the period May-August 2020. In total 925 usable responses were collected, with respondents from 26 EU Member States. The data was analysed with descriptive statistics and with non-parametric tests. Some of the key results of this research are: (1) there are often significant differences in discovery practices between interdisciplinary scholars and scholars working on a single discipline; (2) scholars at lower level of their career struggle more than those at higher level in a number of areas, which include the discovery process and the capacity to collaborate with other stakeholders; (3) differences in the discovery practices are also perceivable across different research techniques (qualitative, quantitative, quali-quantitative); (4) also at disciplinary level there are perceivable differences in the discovery and networking practices, with in particular differences between disciplines using archives and the others. The results obtained from the questionnaire will support the TRIPLE consortium in taking relevant decisions for the final design and shape of the GOTRIPLE discovery platform.