Authors’ Awareness and Attitudes Toward Open Access Repositories

Creaser, Claire; Fry, Jenny; Greenwood, Helen; Oppenheim, Charles; Probets, Steve; Spezi, Valerie C.L.; White, Sonya

doi:10.1080/13614533.2010.518851

Cited by 85 publications

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“…Humanities and social sciences researchers showed a preference for the institutional repository (36% and 35%, respectively). These results coincide with those obtained in the survey conducted for the PEER project (Creaser et al, 2010). It should be noted that researchers in physics and mathematics were among the first to participate in the institutional repository at this university, as they were accustomed to depositing their works in subject repositories and on the department website.…”

Section: Analysis By Subject Areasupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The study showed that, although there was a good general understanding and appreciation of the effectiveness of open access, there were clear differences between researchers from different disciplines in their understanding of depositing their publications in institutional repositories and their motivations for doing so (Creaser et al, 2010). Although two thirds of the respondents knew what open access was, their understanding of it differed according to the discipline.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 83%

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Open Access Awareness and Perceptions in an Institutional Landscape

Serrano-Vicente

Melero

Abadal

2016

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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INTRODUCTION. The aim of this study was to determine the awareness of open access among the academic staff of a research-oriented Spanish university, their use of the institutional repository and their satisfaction with its services.METHODS. An anonymous survey of 37 questions was sent to all professors, researchers and doctoral students of the University of Navarra. Between 5 and 25 March 2015, a total of 1989 messages were sent by email with a link to the survey. RESULTS.A total of 352 responses (17%) were received. The responses showed statistically significant differences in opinions concerning open access journals and services created on top of the repository. Although there was general agreement on the need for open access, half the respondents adopted open access practices (which included the use of the institutional repository, personal and departmental pages and academic platforms such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate). This percentage increased with the older respondents, who were also senior members of staff with tenure and positions of authority at the university. The opinion on open access journals depended on the area of research and was related to the type of academic communication and career advancement in each discipline. Specifically, the opinions of researchers were similar within social sciences and humanities, within medicine and life sciences, and within the physical sciences. The repository services most valued were correction of bibliographic data among older researchers and document scanning among social sciences and humanities researchers. The interoperability of the repository with other systems (especially the current research information system) was also considered important.

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Section: Analysis By Subject Areasupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 83%

Open Access Awareness and Perceptions in an Institutional Landscape

Serrano-Vicente

Melero

Abadal

2016

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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“…Pontika, however, found that the policy does not encourage authors to submit to PLOS journals, nor does it lead to greater familiarity with other OA options (2015). Likewise, both Cullen andChawner (2011) andCreaser et al (2010) found that health sciences faculty were less likely to have deposited their scholarship into an IR than scholars in other disciplines. In a 2015 follow-up to Creaser et al's 2010 study, Spezi, et al found that differences among respondents' behaviors and attitudes were persistently shaped by disciplinary culture and norms and additionally found that the deposit of health science scholarship in open access repositories was more likely to be mediated by staff other than the faculty authors themselves (2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus

Odell

Palmer

Dill

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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Access to scholarship in the health sciences has greatly increased in the last decade. The adoption of the 2008 U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy and the launch of successful open access journals in health sciences have done much to move the exchange of scholarship beyond the subscription-only model. One might assume, therefore, that scholars publishing in the health sciences would be more supportive of these changes. However, the results of this survey of attitudes on a campus with a large medical faculty show that health science respondents were uncertain of the value of recent changes in the scholarly communication system.

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“…9 As a mixed-method study across Europe found out, there are also clear differences between scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds in their understanding of open access repositories and their motivations for depositing articles within them. 11 We know very little about academics as users of repositories, and what we do know is rather old. In 2007, Dana McKay stated that 'There are no known reports of actual usage of any IR' and that 'virtually nothing is known about IR end-users.'…”

Section: Research Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%