Authors and open access publishing
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Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of ‘self‐archiving’ was less. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not published in an open access journal attributed that to unfamiliarity with such journals. Forty per cent of authors have self‐archived their traditional journal articles and almost twice as many say they would do so if required to.
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Experience in the UK suggests that authors are more likely to self-archive their publications in institutional repositories if their institutions require them to do so.
“Experience in the UK suggests that authors are more likely to self-archive their publications in their institutional repositories if their institutions require them to do so (Swan and Brown 2004).”
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- Authors
- Swan, A., & Brown, S.
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- Key Perspectives Ltd
- Corresponding author
- Swan, Alma
- Brown, Sheridan
- Venue
- Learned Publishing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-07
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-224
- ISSN
- 0953-1513 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-4857
- OpenAlex
- W1969232170
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- FWCI
- 90.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Learned Publishing (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- CogPrints (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Keywords
- open access publishing, author awareness, self-archiving, open access journals, research impact, research funding, author attitudes
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