Awareness on Institutional Repositories-related Issues by Faculty of University of Calcutta

Dutta, Goutam; Paul, Dipak

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“…This finding is slightly different from the previous studies, none of which suggested lack of knowledge of the deposit process as one of the most significant barriers that account for low IR participation rate (Abrizah, 2009;Dutta & Paul, 2014;Kim, 2011;Van Westrienen & Lynch, 2005). Concern about plagiarism was expressed by 48%, certainly not one of the top concerns of TAMU faculty, which stands in sharp contrast with the findings presented by Singeh, Abrizah, and Karim (2013), who reported that plagiarism was the major barrier for their faculty's willingness to participate in the IR.…”

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University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study

Yang

Liu

2015

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTIONThe purpose of this study was to understand TAMU faculty awareness of open access (OA) publishing; assess their attitudes towards, and willingness to, contribute to an institutional repository (IR); and investigate their perceptions of newer OA trends and resources, including Open Educational Resources (OER) and DMPTool. The survey also served as an outreach tool to inform and educate TAMU faculty about OA publishing, the IR, and the Libraries' OA services. METHODS The 34-question survey was conducted between Nov. 6-Dec 15, 2014 using Qualtrics, a web-based survey tool. Responses were anonymous, and participants were prevented from answering the survey more than once. Two hundred ninety-five faculty responded to the survey, resulting in a response rate of 11 percent. RESULTS Survey results suggest that tenured faculty are more engaged and interested in OA publishing topics in general, and tenure-track faculty are more willing to adopt new initiative such as Open Textbooks. Overall, the responding TAMU faculty are willing to consider publishing in OA publications, and almost half of them believe OA journal publications are acceptable for consideration of tenure and promotion in their departments. Despite their positive attitudes towards OA publishing, they are not so positive towards OA mandates. The survey also revealed there is a low awareness level of the TAMU IR, as well as of newer OA trends and resources. CONCLUSION The majority of responding TAMU faculty are aware of OA journals in their fields, and indicated their willingness to publish in an OA publication. Being unaware of the IR deposit process stood out as the greatest barrier that accounts for the low IR participation rate at TAMU. In line with previous studies, copyright concerns, as well as the perception of IR contents as being of lower quality, are the second most significant barriers. Workshops or seminars on copyright, data management, and the IR are badly needed. Several participants appreciated this survey because it provided many web links to the resources mentioned for them to explore further, and as a result they learned a lot from the survey. Despite our best efforts to make faculty aware of the abundance of resources made available by the Libraries, it seems that our audience continues to remain unaware of some of our services and resources. This only reinforces the need for continuous communication-after all, there is no such thing as too many reminders.

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“…Dutta and Paul (2014) shared the results of their survey among selected science and technology faculty members of the University of Calcutta in India. They reported that the faculty members' attitudes regarding IR were generally positive.…”

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University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study

Yang

Liu

2015

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…It cannot be done in isolation of the faculty members who are stakeholder and key contributors. [2] opines that the main source for contents of any academic IR is the faculty members. It will be recalled that the potential value of IR is not yet fully appreciated by most faculty members in several universities especially in Nigeria.…”

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“…To overcome the challenges of copyright, authors and publishers could agree for a dual copyright. In this regard, an author with copyrighted materials under dual agreement enjoys the right and privilege to retain the copyright to the same work that has been published by a journal [2].…”

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Institutional Repository (IR) Awareness and Willingness of Faculty Staff to Deposit Research Work: A Study of Faculty Staff in Selected Public and Private University in Nigeria

Omeluzor¹

2014

OALib

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This study appraised the awareness and willingness of faculty staff in Nigerian universities to deposit their pre and post research publications in open access institutional repository. Two universities (one private and one public) were systematically selected for the study. Nigeria has a total of 129 universities; 79 are public universities, while 50 are private universities. The researcher purposefully selected two universities from the public and private for convenience and easy analysis. The population of study cut across all faculty staff in the selected universities given a total number of 179 academic staff. Findings reveal that the majority of the respondents (52% and 36% from private and public universities respectively) are aware of IR. Findings also show that the majority (62% and 44% of the respondents in the private and public universities respectively) have published 1 -10 research publications using materials from IR. While 22% and 26% of the respondents have also published up to 11 -20 publications using materials published in IR. Unfortunately, despite benefitting from IR, findings reveal that 88% and 96% of the respondents from private and public universities have not deposited any publication in IR. The researcher, therefore, recommend that awareness of IR in institutions of higher learning must be prioritized and that faculty staff should be encouraged to contribute to IR project as a means of increasing their relevance, visibility and ranking and that of their affiliated university.

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“…The survey results show that engineering faculty published little in author-pays "Gold" journals and had few plans to do so in the future. Furthermore, Dutta and Paul (2014) shared the results of their survey among selected science and technology faculty members of the University of Calcutta in India. They reported that the faculty members' attitudes regarding IR were generally positive.…”

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University Faculty Opinion on Open Access Publishing: A Case Study of Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

Khan¹,

Khanam²

2017

IJAR

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Awareness on Institutional Repositories-related Issues by Faculty of University of Calcutta

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University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study

University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study

Institutional Repository (IR) Awareness and Willingness of Faculty Staff to Deposit Research Work: A Study of Faculty Staff in Selected Public and Private University in Nigeria

University Faculty Opinion on Open Access Publishing: A Case Study of Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

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