Spanish researchers’ opinions, attitudes and practices towards open access publishing

Bibliographic Data

ID12624345
AuthorsSergio Ruiz-Pérez (0000-0001-6524-4020, corresponding author), Emilio Delgado López‐Cózar (0000-0002-8184-551X, Universidad de Granada), Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar
Year2017
Volume26
Issue4
Pages722-722
Publication date2017-08-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEl Profesional de la Informacion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1386-6710 • E-ISSN: 1699-2407
PublisherEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3145/epi.2017.jul.16
OpenAlexW2743985457
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited1

The open access (OA) movement has exploded in the last few years. In 2016 we invited 1,896 researchers based in Spanish institutions to fill in a survey on their opinion, attitudes and practices towards OA. We analysed the 554 responses received from researchers in all fields of knowledge (29% response ratio). Most researchers are aware of OA outlets in their fields (86%) and believe OA is beneficial (76%). There isn't a clear position on the quality of OA journals among Spain-based researchers and there are differences between disciplines. Almost 70% of researchers have published at least one OA article in the last 5 years. Half of them had to pay article processing charges (APCs) that were covered with research funds

Business · Library science · Open access publishing · Political science · Position (finance · Public relations · Publishing · Quality (philosophy · Computer Science · E-Learning and Knowledge Management · Law · scientometrics and bibliometrics research

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