PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories: Final Report

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The Behavioural research project is one of three independent research projects commissioned and managed by PEER as part of the PEER Observatory. The aim of the Behavioural research project was to address the role of stage-two manuscript repositories in the scholarly and scientific communication system by exploring perceptions, motivations and behaviours of authors and readers. The research was carried out between April 2009 and August 2011 by the Department of Information Science and LISU at Loughborough University, UK....Over the period of Phases 1 and 2 of the Behavioural research project the increase in the number of researchers who reported placing a version of their journal article(s) into an Open Access Repository was negligible....Authors tend to be favourable to Open Access and receptive to the benefits of self-archiving in terms of greater readership and wider dissemination of their research, with the caveat that self-archiving does not compromise the pivotal role of the published journal article....Open Access Repositories are perceived by researchers as complementary to, rather than replacing, current forums for disseminating and publishing research...."

Link:

http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/PEER_D4_final_report_29SEPT11.pdf

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Tags:

oa.new oa.green ru.do ru.ps oa.study oa.peer_project oa.repositories

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:25

Date published:

10/10/2011, 20:57