An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

McDonald, Barbara; Gibson, I. A. S.; Yates, Elizabeth; Stephenson, Carol

doi:10.21083/partnership.v11i2.3703

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“…Open Access publishing, including Dawson, 2014 andMcDonald, Gibson, Yates, &Stephenson, 2016), academic librarians continue to grapple with how best to support faculty with the interpretation, location, and appropriate use of types of metrics. Research has described approaches that academic librarians can and do use to address the bibliometric needs of faculty (Corrall, Kennan, & Afzal, 2013;Hendrix, 2010;Suiter & Moulaison, 2015).…”

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Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

Partnership

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With an increasing focus on scholarly communications in academic libraries, librarians are struggling with how best to support faculty with the location, interpretation, and appropriate use of metrics. Very little has been written about the faculty researcher perspective on metrics and, as a result, librarians may have a deep knowledge of the tools but have a more limited understanding of the users' viewpoint. Seventy-nine senior research faculty who were five or more years post-tenure were interviewed. Faculty from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences were all invited to participate. Each interview consisted of nine questions relating to how the faculty understand and use impact metrics in their academic life. Responses were varied to all of the questions and were tied closely to the disciplinary fields of the research faculty interviewed. A large majority of the interviewed faculty viewed the library as a key resource for getting more information relating to metrics. This research reveals a need to fill a gap between librarians and faculty researchers with examples of disciplinary best practices of metrics use, as well as product information as pertains to impact metrics.

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confidence: 99%

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

Partnership

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“…A relatively high proportion of respondents (88.5%) engaged to some extent with any type of open access publishing. This was a higher level of engagement when compared to other health science faculty in Canada (37%-57%) [ 9 , 20 ] and the US (44%) [ 21 ] and to faculty from all disciplines (65.3%) [ 22 ]. This compares with results among dentistry faculty at the University of Toronto that found 57.1% occasionally or regularly used open access publishing models [ 9 ].…”

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Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework

Janke

Rush

Miller

2022

jmla

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Objective: Health sciences librarian roles are evolving to better meet the needs of faculty. This study explores nursing faculty needs at the University of British Columbia through the research lifecycle framework of planning, conducting, disseminating, and assessing the impact of their research. Methods: A mixed methods survey study with Likert scale, multiple-choice, or ordinal ranking-scale questions and six open-response questions was conducted. The format was a web-based Qualtrics survey; participants had approximately three weeks to respond. Results: Nursing faculty identified the dissemination phase as benefiting most from library support prioritizing reference management and archiving research data as the top needs in that phase. Assessing impact skills such as citation analysis and Altmetrics training was ranked second. The Planning phase was ranked third with systematic review and literature review support most needed. The Conducting phase was identified as the phase where they needed the least support. Conclusion: Understanding the needs of researchers and enhancing scholar productivity is vital to offering responsive library research services. Across the research lifecycle, nursing faculty identified reference management, data management, metrics evaluation, systematic reviews, and literature reviews as the key areas for which they need support.

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“…Researchers who have not published in an OA journal perceive the journals to "have low prestige and low impact" (Denicola, 2006, p. 360). Senior faculty who prefer traditional publishers may be apprehensive about OA publishers (Whitaker, 2018), and perspectives about OA vary by discipline (McDonald et al, 2016). Tenured faculty review tenure applications and give a recommendation to the chair of the department whether to move the file forward to the dean's office (Whitaker, 2018).…”

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Open Access Legislation and Regulation in the United States: Implications for Higher Education

Chaudhary

Irwin

Nguyễn

2020

JCEL

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Accessing quality research when not part of an academic institution can be challenging. Dating back to the 1980s, open access (OA) was a response to journal publishers who restricted access to publications by requiring a subscription and limited access to knowledge. Although the OA movement seeks to remove costly barriers to accessing research, especially when funded by state and federal governments, it remains the subject of continuous debates. After providing a brief overview of OA, this article summarizes OA statutory and regulatory developments at the federal and state levels regarding free and open access to research. It compares similarities and differences among enacted and proposed legislation and describes the advantages and disadvantages of these laws. It analyzes the effects of these laws in higher education, especially on university faculty regarding tenure and promotion decisions as well as intellectual property rights to provide recommendations and best practices regarding the future of legislation and regulation in the United States.

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An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework

Open Access Legislation and Regulation in the United States: Implications for Higher Education

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