What do early-career researchers think about open access? | eLife

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-06

Summary:

"Selecting a journal to submit a manuscript to is an important decision for any researcher. To find out the factors that influence this decision for early-career researchers, we conducted a survey of PhD students and postdocs at Max Planck Institutes across Germany. The respondents worked in a variety of fields including biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics and the social sciences. As advocates of open access (OA), we also wanted to find out how much early-career researchers knew about this topic. A total of 314 PhD students and postdocs completed the survey, and some of the results are discussed in this article.   Regarding open access, 17% of respondents said that they understood it well, with another 39% saying that they had some knowledge of it, compared with 11% who weren't sure and 3% who were not aware of it: some 30% of the PhD students and postdocs did not answer this question (Figure 1) ..."

Link:

http://elifesciences.org/elife-news/What-do-early-career-researchers-think-about-open-access

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.studies oa.surveys oa.max_planck_institute oa.attitudes

Date tagged:

07/06/2015, 17:39

Date published:

07/06/2015, 13:39