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Un gruppo di ricercatori dell’Università dell’Arkansas e dell’Università di Monaco di Baviera ha avviato una consultazione in rete per sondare il grado di penetrazione delle politiche Open access all’interno della comunità scientifica internazionale.

Docenti, ricercatori e studenti sono invitati a rispondere alle domande del questionario su Open Access & Science Publishing entro l’11 di Agosto.

Dalla pagina di presentazione del progetto: 

Our research interest is with the attitudes toward and perceptions of Open Access of scientists in their double role as readers and authors of scientific publications….

Following a pragmatic as well as a theoretical approach, we are interested in identifying underlying barriers to the adoption of Open Access publications by individuals and in finding ways to overcome these barriers. At the same time we want to be alert to emerging business models for publishers and institutions in the future.

More specifically, we are exploring:

[1] Scientists’ attitudes toward and current practices of Open Access

[2] Identification of the barriers that are mostly responsible for the relatively low diffusion and adoption of Open Access publications

[3] Identification of opportunities and ways to overcome these barriers

[4] Research of country/subject specific-differences.

[fonte: Open access News]