Opportunities for open access: Insights from the Wiley Practitioner Survey - Roscoe - 2021 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library
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Summary:
"Key points
- There is less awareness of open-access publishing amongst practitioners than amongst their academic colleagues.
- The requirement for certification is a significant driver of professional society membership, particularly for those in clinical and veterinary medicine.
- Flipping a society journal from a subscription model to fully open access may drive down satisfaction.
- Professional society members state a desire for increased collaboration with academics and feel that societies have a role to play in this.
- Satisfaction levels with society membership are generally low amongst early career members (ECMs), but there are some clear opportunities for targeted services to improve this.
- Awareness of open access is reasonably high, and there are calls for greater transparency and improved data sharing, particularly from ECMs and engineers...."