Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty:
Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views
on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher
education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital
repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions
such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians and who does not?
Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with
the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid
for them by their library or academic department?
The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education
faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate
and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college,
academic title and other factors.
Just a few of the report¡¦s many findings are that:
ƒö 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college's institutional
digital repository for scholarly research purposes.
ƒö Use was greatest by faculty at specialized colleges, of whom 40% had
used a digital repository at some time for research purposes
ƒö About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing
open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.
ƒö Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard
of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually
contributed an article to one of them.
ƒö 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the
term ¡§open access¡¨. Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum
were more likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.
ƒö Older faculty were more likely than younger faculty to be mystified by
open access and digital repositories. Almost 43% of faculty between the ages
of 50 and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were.
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