Authors' Awareness and Attitudes Toward Open Access Repositories

This article investigates the awareness of scholarly authors toward open access repositories and the factors that motivate their use of these repositories. The article reports on the findings obtained from a mixed methods approach which involved a questionnaire returned by over 3000 respondents, sup...

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Published in:The new review of academic librarianship 2010-10, Vol.16 (sup1), p.145-161
Main Authors: Creaser, Claire, Fry, Jenny, Greenwood, Helen, Oppenheim, Charles, Probets, Steve, Spezi, Valérie, White, Sonya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
attitudes
behavior
disciplinary differences
Institutional repositories
Motivation
Open access
PEER project
repositories
self-archiving
Writers
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Summary:This article investigates the awareness of scholarly authors toward open access repositories and the factors that motivate their use of these repositories. The article reports on the findings obtained from a mixed methods approach which involved a questionnaire returned by over 3000 respondents, supplemented by four focus groups held across Europe in the summer 2009. The research found that although there was a good understanding and appreciation of the ethos of open access in general, there were clear differences between scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds in their understanding of open access repositories and their motivations for depositing articles within them. This research forms the first part of a longitudinal study that will track the changing behaviors and attitudes of authors toward open access repositories.
ISSN:1361-4533
1740-7834
DOI:10.1080/13614533.2010.518851