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JISC MediaHub 2012/2013

EDINA undertook a user survey of JISC MediaHub between October 2012 and January 2013. A link to the survey was available from within the site; a popup window appeared after 3 minutes of starting to use the service for all users. The survey was not compulsory.

68 responses were received. A summary of the results is presented here:

Country of Study/Work

The majority of respondents came from the UK (90%), the remainder were from China, Europe, North America and South Africa.

Uptake by role and discipline

Of the 68 respondents a significant proportion (53%) identified themselves as an "Information professional", the next biggest group were researchers (15%), followed by lecturers (11%) and students (10%). The 6 responses in the “other” group were members of the public who were searching the service for materials for personal research.

Survey respondents were able to select one or more disciplines; a total of 140 discipline types were selected with seven Information Professionals selecting all disciplines.

Users of JISC MediaHub represent a wide variety of disciplines; the most popular disciplines were:

Discipline	Percentage
Education and research methods	14
Humanities	13
Creative and performing arts	8
Geography and the environment	6
Communication and media studies	6
Mathematics and computer science	6
Biological sciences	5
Social Sciences	5

For what purpose do you use JISC MediaHub?

Users were asked for what purpose they used JISC MediaHub: 32% of respondents used the service for teaching materials, 28% for research and 16% for supporting staff and students.

Perceived Ease of Use

61% of users found the service very easy or easy to use; 13% of users found the service difficult or very difficult to use.

Respondents were asked what they liked about JISC MediaHub, shown below is a selection of their comments:

• “The licence information and use.” Information Professional
• “Very wide range of materials available without worries about copyright issues.” Information Professional
• “Clear interface, easy instruction” Information Professional
• “The generous selection of outstanding materials” Lecturer

Perceived Quality of Information

78% of respondent indicated that they would recommend JISC MediaHub to others (by responding agree or strongly agree).



• “I recommend JISC MediaHub to students, recommending that they can use this rather than do Google searches for media.” Information Professional
• “I continually recommend this service to students for the wealth of resources covering many different subjects.” Information Professional
• “Because of the value of the information it can provide to researchers in my field.” Lecturer
• “I think other peers could make more use of its availability and discover some interesting/useful media” Post-graduate Student

Does JISC MediaHub save time?

32% of respondents either Agreed or Strongly agreed, the majority (59%) gave a neutral response, “Neither agree not disagree”.



• “Couldn't teach one of my modules if it did not exist” Lecturer
• “Having to search for more copyright cleared information that could be used in teaching and learning. “ Lecturer
• “Quick and easy to point students and staff to for quality image and audio and the confidence that it can be used legitimately!” Information Professional

Alternative resources

When asked if they would use an alternative service if JISC MediaHub was not available 44% of respondents would use an alternative, 49% said “don’t know” and only 7% would not use an alternative.



A selection of suggested alternatives to JISC MediaHub is shown below:

• BBC Motion Gallery
• Box of Broadcasts and BBC Website
• British Pathe and other newsreel sites
• Commons searches, stock images (paid for)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• Flickr using Creative Commons licensing
• Google images
• Prelinger Archive open2.net
• proquest if available
• SCRAN
• Wikimedia Commons
• YouTube