[InetBib] PEER Behavioural Research - Final Report available

["Bayer-Schur, Barbara" <bayer-schur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following should be of interest.

 

Regards, Barbara Bayer-Schur

PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research 

www.peerproject.eu <http://www.peerproject.eu/> 

 

 

PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research

News release

 

6 October 2011

 

PEER Behavioural Research: Final Report on authors and users vis-a-vis
journals and repositories now available at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/
<https://mail.stm.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.peerproject.eu/repo
rts/> 

 

The PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department
of Information Science & LISU) has completed the behavioural research
commissioned by PEER. The research which consisted of two phases adopted a
mixed methods approach consisting of surveys, focus groups and an
interdisciplinary workshop and was carried out between April 2009 and August
2011. 

 

*         The specific aim of the behavioural research was to understand the
extent to which authors and users are aware of Open Access (OA), the
different ways of achieving it, and the (de)motivating factors that influence
its uptake.

 

The report integrates findings from the first phase of the research with the
more in depth 

focus of phase two of the research, which drilled down into some of the key
findings of the phase 1 results. 

 

Key conclusions:

*        Over the period of Phases 1 and 2 of the behavioural research the
increase in the number of researchers who reported placing a version of their
journal article(s) into an Open Access Repository was negligible.

 

*        Researchers who associated Open Access with 'self-archiving' were in
the minority. Open Access is more likely to be associated with
'self-archiving' (Green Road) by researchers in the Physical sciences &
mathematics and the Social sciences, humanities & arts, than those in the
Life sciences and Medical sciences who are more likely to associate Open
Access with Open Access Journals (Gold Road).

 

*        There is anecdotal evidence that some researchers consider making
journal articles accessible via Open Access to be beyond their remit.

 

*        Authors tend to be favourable to Open Access and receptive to the
benefits of self-archiving in terms of greater readership and wider
dissemination of their research, with the caveat that self-archiving does not
compromise the pivotal role of the published journal article.

 

*        Readers have concerns about the authority of article content and the
extent to which it can be cited when the version they have accessed is not
the final published version. These concerns are more prevalent where the
purpose of reading is to produce a published journal article, and are
perceived as less of an issue for other types of reading purpose.

 

*        Academic researchers have a conservative set of attitudes,
perceptions and behaviours towards the scholarly communication system and do
not desire fundamental changes in the way research is currently disseminated
and published.

 

*        Open Access Repositories are perceived by researchers as
complementary to, rather than replacing, current forums for disseminating and
publishing research.

 

The full report is available from http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/
<https://mail.stm.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.peerproject.eu/repo
rts/> 

 

PEER Behavioural Research Team

Dr Jenny Fry, Professor Charles Oppenheim, Dr Stephen Probets, 

Department of Information Science, Loughborough University

 

Claire Creaser, Helen Greenwood, Valerie Spezi, Sonya White

LISU, Loughborough University

 

For enquiries relating to Behavioural Research or other research areas within
PEER, please contact Chris Armbruster: chris.armbruster@xxxxxxxxx 

 

For other enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

 

About PEER:

PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC
eContentplus programme
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm
> , is investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of
authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or
stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal
viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. The
project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers
and will last from September 2008 to May 2012

 

For further information on PEER, visit the website:
http://www.peerproject.eu/ <http://www.peerproject.eu/> 

 

PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical
Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and
University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and
University of Bielefeld

 

STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge
University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing
Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer;
Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell

 

PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL),
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG); HAL,
CNRS & Institut National

de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); Göttingen State and
University

Library (UGOE); SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS -
Leibniz

Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD);
University Library of Debrecen (ULD)

Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek

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Barbara Bayer-Schur M.A.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung (FE) - DARIAH-DE
Papendiek 14
D-37073 Göttingen

Tel: +49 551 39 9061
Fax: +49 551 39 3856
bayer-schur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bayer-schur@bayer-schur@sub.uni-goettingen.de> 
http://www.de.dariah.eu/

 

 

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Barbara Bayer-Schur M.A.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung (FE) - DARIAH-DE
Papendiek 14
D-37073 Göttingen

Tel: +49 551 39 9061
Fax: +49 551 39 3856
bayer-schur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bayer-schur@bayer-schur@sub.uni-goettingen.de> 
http://www.de.dariah.eu/

 

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