Attitudes towards open access: A meta-synthesis of the empirical literature

Togia, Aspasia; Korobili, Stella

doi:10.3233/isu-140742

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“…Publications such as rapid communications, short communication, technical notes, letters to the editor, books, article reviews, viewpoints, editorials, and calendar events, were excluded. Our criteria is similar to those used by Grandbois and Beheshti [42], Liu and Wan [21], and Togia and Korobili [43].…”

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confidence: 99%

Research Articles about Open Access Indexed by Scopus: A Content Analysis

2016

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This study analyzes research articles about open access (OA) indexed by the Scopus database, published from 2001 to 2015, in order to: (a) propose a categorization scheme about OA; (b) categorize the scientific production about OA; and (c) identify research trends on OA through disciplines at international level over time. The authors used descriptive statistical methods and deductive content analysis using an unconstrained matrix in 347 selected research articles. The most explored themes were found to be "overview, current state, and growth of OA" counting for 98 articles (28.2%), and "awareness, perceptions, and attitudes toward OA" for 75 articles (21.6%). As a conclusion, this study reveals a continuous and growing research interest by the OA community in studies focused on case studies regarding the development or evolution of OA in relation to certain groups, institutions, regions, periods, and how different actors perceive and address the OA movement.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research Articles about Open Access Indexed by Scopus: A Content Analysis

2016

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“…Togia and Korobili's (2014) (Frass, Cross & Gardner, 2014. p. 7). In May 2012, Wiley conducted a survey of its authors; of the 10,000 authors who responded, one third indicated having published in an OA journal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concern and confusion about APCs also permeate researchers' responses in a variety of studies (Fowler, 2011;Moore, 2011;Togia & Korobili, 2014). As noted in the introduction, many players in the scholarly publishing world conflate OA journals with APCs, leading researchers to assume that all OA journals charge APCs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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Introduction: This exploratory study was intended to shed light on Canadian academics' participation in, knowledge of and attitudes towards Open Access (OA) journal publishing. The primary aim of the study was to inform the authors' schools' educational and outreach efforts to faculty regarding OA publishing. The survey was conducted at two Canadian comprehensive universities: Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario) and Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario) in 2014. Methods: A web-based survey was distributed to faculty at each university. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Limitations: Despite the excellent response rates, the results are not generalizable beyond these two institutions. Results: The Brock response rate was 38%; the Laurier response rate was 23% from full-time faculty and five percent from part-time faculty. Brock and Laurier faculty members share common characteristics in both their publishing practices and attitudes towards OA. Science/health science researchers were the most positive about OA journal publishing; arts and humanities and social sciences respondents were more mixed in their

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“…Internal, personal, or individual values and differences are suggested to influence scholarly publishing (Dulle & Minishi-Majanja, 2011;Khalili & Singh, 2012;Togia & Korobili, 2014). Internal, personal, or individual values and differences are suggested to influence scholarly publishing (Dulle & Minishi-Majanja, 2011;Khalili & Singh, 2012;Togia & Korobili, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, external influences such as perceptions of journal quality are not the only motivational factors driving academic achievement. Internal, personal, or individual values and differences are suggested to influence scholarly publishing (Dulle & Minishi-Majanja, 2011;Khalili & Singh, 2012;Togia & Korobili, 2014). Spanning decades, social psychology has both empirically and theoretically investigated individuals' concepts of self-identity and selfcategorization (Stets & Burke, 2000;Tajfel, Billig, Bundy, & Flament, 1971;Turner, 1985), and how these structures are shaped and interact in various social and organizational settings (Ashforth & Mael, 1989;Hogg & Terry, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

Perceived quality and self‐identity in scholarly publishing

Moksness

Olsen

2019

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The purpose of the study was to understand if and how 2 proposed facets of self-identity (work-self and careerself) and journals' perceived quality (impact, visibility, and content quality) influence and explain the intention to publish in open access (OA) or nonopen access (non-OA) journals. This study integrates attitude and identity theory within a cross-sectional survey design. The sample consists of about 1,600 researchers in Norway, and the data were collected via e-mail invitation using a digital surveying tool and analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques. We determined that perceived impact-quality increases the intention to publish non-OA, while decreasing the intention to publish OA. Content quality is only associated with non-OA journals. Perceived visibility increases the intention to publish OA, while the opposite effect is found for non-OA. Career-self salience has the strongest effect on impact-quality, while content quality is most important when work-self is salient. This research contributes to a deeper understanding about how perceived quality influences intention to publish in OA and non-OA journals, and how self-identity salience affects different facets of perceived quality in valence and strength. Findings have implications for policy development, implementation, and assessment and may contribute to improving OA adoption.

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Attitudes towards open access: A meta-synthesis of the empirical literature

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

Research Articles about Open Access Indexed by Scopus: A Content Analysis

Research Articles about Open Access Indexed by Scopus: A Content Analysis

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

Perceived quality and self‐identity in scholarly publishing

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