[Psidev-ms-dev] Fwd: Impact assessment of EMBL-EBI: Your help requested.

[Juan A. V. <ju...@eb...>]

Dear all,

If you have time to contribute to this survey on use of EMBL-EBI resources, please do so, your help would be highly appreciated. In addition, you could also win one Raspberry Pi 2 with Pibow Cases!

The online questionnaire is accessible at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EBI_Impact <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EBI_Impact>

Thanks a lot in advance,

Juan Antonio



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> Subject: Impact assessment of EMBL-EBI: Your help requested.
> Date: 7 May 2015 12:37:29 BST
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> Dear Colleague,
> 
> We are writing to you as Associate Directors of the EMBL European 
> Bioinformatics Institute to request your support and involvement in an 
> independent survey commissioned as part of a study to assess the value 
> and impact of EMBL- EBI services on the communities we serve. This is an 
> important study in a number of ways, but in particular, it will be 
> extremely useful to be able to demonstrate to funding bodies and others 
> the economic benefits of having freely accessible services and resources 
> for research in the life sciences.
> 
> Within the survey a range of methods and approaches are used including 
> the hypothetical question of willingness to pay or accept payment to be 
> without EMBL-EBI services.  We would like to highlight that this 
> question is being presented as a purely hypothetical one but necessary 
> to feed into a well known economic model of assessing services that are 
> without charge (contingent valuation).  If any questions or concerns 
> arise due to the survey please feel free to respond to this email address.
> 
> We are hopeful we can draw on the cooperation and goodwill of our user 
> community to get as large a response as possible.
> 
> Charles Beagrie Ltd is conducting the assessment and the online 
> questionnaire  is accessible at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EBI_Impact <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EBI_Impact>
> 
> It is estimated that the survey will take around 15 minutes to complete 
> and it will close on Friday  8th May 2015.
> 
> The results of the survey will be anonymised and disseminated in 
> aggregate only and all personal data treated as confidential.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your and your colleagues participation and 
> input. We recognise there are many demands on your time. As a token of 
> appreciation for contributing, all participants who complete the survey 
> are also given the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of five 
> Raspberry Pi 2 with Pibow Cases.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Ewan Birney and Rolf Apweiler
> Joint Associate Directors, EMBL-EBI
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