UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository
Published version available at https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2839/ Objectives - Using The Munin Repository at UiT The Arctic University of Norway as a case study, a survey was conducted among the UiT researchers to examine their attitudes and practices towards the repository and towards open acce...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/17377 2023-05-15T18:49:26+02:00 UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository Msomphora, Mbachi Ruth 2019-11 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17377 eng eng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore LIBRES Library and Information Science Research e-journal Msomphora MR. UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository. LIBRES Library and Information Science Research e-journal. 2019;29(1):14-36 FRIDAID 1792947 1058-6768 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17377 openAccess Copyright 2019 The Author(s) VDP::Social science: 200::Library and information science: 320 VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2019 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:57:13Z Published version available at https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2839/ Objectives - Using The Munin Repository at UiT The Arctic University of Norway as a case study, a survey was conducted among the UiT researchers to examine their attitudes and practices towards the repository and towards open access (OA) publications. Methods - The survey questionnaire was sent to all employees at UiT between August and October 2016, but only academic staff in research positions, including PhD students, were selected for the analysis. 200 researchers responded to the survey. Results - The study found that researchers are supportive of the principle of OA but are less keen on contributing to their institutional repositories for a range of reasons. These include the process being quite a hassle, academics’ uncertainty over certain legal, copyright and peer review issues, prestige issues, and uncertainty over the appropriate version to deposit or self-archive. Contribution - The statistical results can be used by readers as benchmarks to compare with their own institution’s figures. Conclusively, the study found that more than 90% of the researchers agreed with the OA principles, but still 54% of UiT researchers did not archive their research documents in The Munin Repository. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway |
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Published version available at https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2839/ Objectives - Using The Munin Repository at UiT The Arctic University of Norway as a case study, a survey was conducted among the UiT researchers to examine their attitudes and practices towards the repository and towards open access (OA) publications. Methods - The survey questionnaire was sent to all employees at UiT between August and October 2016, but only academic staff in research positions, including PhD students, were selected for the analysis. 200 researchers responded to the survey. Results - The study found that researchers are supportive of the principle of OA but are less keen on contributing to their institutional repositories for a range of reasons. These include the process being quite a hassle, academics’ uncertainty over certain legal, copyright and peer review issues, prestige issues, and uncertainty over the appropriate version to deposit or self-archive. Contribution - The statistical results can be used by readers as benchmarks to compare with their own institution’s figures. Conclusively, the study found that more than 90% of the researchers agreed with the OA principles, but still 54% of UiT researchers did not archive their research documents in The Munin Repository. |
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UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository |
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UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository |
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UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository |
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UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository |
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UiT-Researchers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Open Access Publication: Lessons Learnt for Improving Self-Archiving in Institutional Repository |
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uit-researchers’ attitudes and practices towards open access publication: lessons learnt for improving self-archiving in institutional repository |
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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