Do academics still need monographs? | Open Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-15

Summary:

"Results from the survey released by OAPEN-UK have shown that 10% of researchers for whom access to monographs is important, also claim that it is difficult or very difficult to get such access. Among the researchers who stated that access to journal articles is important to them, the share of those who believe it is difficult or very difficult to get this access is twice smaller. Is 10% significant or not? In fact, it is hard to say relying on this survey alone. The research sample consists of 2,231 researchers working within the field of humanities and social sciences. And that is all that we know about it, except for the fact that the sample was not a randomized trial of any defined population. We know that the questionnaire was ‘distributed via social media and targeted emails using OAPEN-UK and HEFCE networks’, which is quite a poor description. We do not know where these researchers are from, or where they are working, etc. We can guess that UK-based and younger researchers are overrepresented in this sample, but this is only a guess ..."

Link:

http://openscience.com/academic-monograph-open-access-die/

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Tags:

oa.colleges oa.universities oa.attitudes oa.hefce oa.oapen-uk oa.humanities oa.books oa.surveys oa.comment oa.new ru.sparc oa.hei oa.ssh

Date tagged:

11/15/2014, 16:04

Date published:

11/15/2014, 07:46