SPARC OA Forum: Research shows growing awareness and uptake of Open Access publishing by authors

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

An announcement sent to the SPARC OA Forum states, “Today InTech, an Open Access publisher, has published the results of a survey appraising attitudes and awareness of the research community towards the Open Access (OA) business model in scholarly publishing. The InTech white paper: ‘Open Access: Awareness and Attitudes amongst the Author Community, is based on a review of current research and a survey sent to 20,000 STM researchers worldwide. The survey attracted an overall response rate of 1.3%, with 275 participants taking part and 253 (92%) completing it. The majority of respondents were researchers (75%) based at a university (70%). The data was sourced from an independent provider of contact data for the research community (Mardev)... The full results can be downloaded from: http://www.intechweb.org/js/**ckeditor/kcfinder/upload/** files/InTech_WhitePaper_**FutureofOA_Dec11.pdf “

Link:

https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum/browse_thread/thread/718c8704744414ce

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.surveys oa.impact oa.attitudes oa.books oa.prestige oa.sparc oa.fees oa.citations oa.stem oa.journals

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:14

Date published:

02/06/2012, 14:36