ERIC Number: EJ1243501
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jan
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Attitudes of North American Academics toward Open Access Scholarly Journals
portal: Libraries and the Academy, v20 n1 p73-100 Jan 2020
In this study, the authors examine attitudes of researchers toward open access (OA) scholarly journals. Using two-step cluster analysis to explore survey data from faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at large North American research institutions, two different cluster types emerge: Those with a positive attitude toward OA and a desire to reach the nonscholarly audience groups who would most benefit from OA ("pro-OA"), and those with a more negative, skeptical attitude and less interest in reaching nonscholarly readers ("non-OA"). The article explores these cluster identities in terms of position type, subject discipline, and productivity, as well as implications for policy and practice.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Access to Information, Periodicals, Scholarship, Researchers, Graduate Students, Audiences, Intellectual Disciplines, Productivity, Authors, Faculty Publishing, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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