Dear all,
You may be interested in our survey of 22,000 academic researchers which found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40% of scientists who had not published open access in the last three years said "I am concerned about perceptions of the quality of OA publications." But this year, only 27% said they were concerned. In the humanities, business and social sciences, the drop was from 54% in 2014 to 41% in 2015. Nonetheless, a concern about perceptions of the quality of OA publications is still the leading factor in authors choosing not to publish OA.
All the anonymised data from our Author Insights survey is available for the second year running under a CC BY license, in order to achieve greater understanding between authors, funders and publishers.
You can access the raw data, along with a summary of our findings on figshare here: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425362
Kind regards,
Amy
Amy Bourke-Waite
Senior Communications Manager
Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave Macmillan
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