[SocBiN] Fwd: Impact assessment of EMBL-EBI: Your help requested.

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff Erik.Bongcam at slu.se
Thu Apr 9 16:32:44 CEST 2015


An important Action!

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From: EBI Survey <ebi-survey at ebi.ac.uk<mailto:ebi-survey at ebi.ac.uk>>
Subject: Impact assessment of EMBL-EBI: Your help requested.
Date: 9 Apr 2015 11:27:00 GMT+2
To: erikbong at mac.com<mailto:erikbong at mac.com>

Dear Erik

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.
We are approaching leaders in the life sciences community, with the hope that you may be able to cascade this survey to relevant and willing researchers you work with.   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 or ourselves directly (birney at ebi.ac.uk<mailto:birney at ebi.ac.uk>, apweiler at ebi.ac.uk<mailto:apweiler at ebi.ac.uk>)

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

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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