[Open-education] Report: Open Access to Journal Articles Gaining Acceptance from Researchers

Thu Jul 10 19:11:25 UTC 2014

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/07/report-open-access-to-journal-articles-gaining-acceptance-from-researchers.aspx

http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014

   - 47 percent of respondents were unsure about their future plans for
   publishing articles as gold open access;
   - 46 percent were willing to publish more articles as green open access;
   - 31 percent of researchers always "specifically search for articles in
   repositories using a general search engine" such as Google or Google
   Scholar;
   - 22 percent strongly agree that the articles they find in repositories
   are often useful in their research;
   - 36 percent strongly agree that it's acceptable for their work to be
   re-used for non-commercial gain, without their prior knowledge or
   permission, provided they receive credit as the original author; and
   - 33 percent most preferred the Creative Commons
   <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/> license CC BY-NC-ND
   (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs).

*The survey has been published open access and distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution License
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>, which permits unrestricted
use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
work is properly cited.*

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