Search Enhancements Survey

Search Enhancement
The overall objective of this pilot phase is to evaluate the features of this search tool. Your feedback will allow us to have better insight into the
effectivienss of this tool meeting your needs. Your participation is voluntary and confidential. This feedback form will take approximately 5
minutes to complete. Thank you.This data collection is approved under OMB Control Number 0704-0403 and DoD Report Control Symbol
DD-AT&L(AR)2300 that expires 8/31/2016.
AGENCY DISCLOSURE NOTIC E: The public reporting burde n for this collection of information is estimated to a vera ge 5 minutes per response , inc luding the time f or reviewing instructions, sear ching
existing data sources, gathe ring and maintaining the data needed, a nd completing and re viewing the collection of information. Send com ments re gar ding this burde n estim ate or any other a spect of this
collection of inf orm ation, including suggestions f or reducing the burden, to the Department of Defense, Washington Headqua rter s Service s, Executive S ervices Directora te, Dire ctives Division, 4800
Mar k Center Dr ive, Ea st Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100, OMB Control N umber 0704-0403 and DoD Report Control Symbol DD-AT&L(AR)2300. Respondents should be awa re tha t
notwithstanding a ny other pr ovision of law, no person shall be subject to any pe nalty for failing to comply with a collection of informa tion if it does not display a c urre ntly valid OMB control number.
PLEAS E DO NOT RETURN YOUR R ESP ONSE TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS .

What is your initial impression of the pilot DTIC
Search Tool (i.e., like, dislike, etc.)? Do not include
any Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Please rate the following based on your experience with the pilot search tool:
Excellent

Very Good

Good

Fair

Poor

Look and feel of search tool
Ease of use
Relevancy of search results
Usefulness of features
Ability to search faster
Overall experience
Please rate the following based on the usefulness of utilizing the advanced search features:
Very Useful

Useful

Somewhat Useful

Not Very Useful

Not at all Useful

Boolean Logic Search(i.e., allows you to combine words and
phrases using the words AND OR NOT)

Wildcards/Truncation Search allows you use special
characters as placeholders for any sequence of characters. Wildcard searches
can be run on individual terms, using ? to replace a single character, and * to
replace zero or more characters. For example, a?sorb will retrieve results for
both "absorb" and "adsorb" while camo*flage will retrieve results for both
camoflage and camouflage.

Nested Searching

(i.e., allows you to place parentheses around
strings of terms while using Boolean operators.)

Search Help Feature
Search results displayed what I expected
Yes

No

NA

If not, please explain.

What do you want to see that you are not currently finding in the pilot DTIC Search Tool. Do not include any Personally Identifiable
Information (PII)

Addtional Comments:

Thank you for your participation!