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

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  • Sergio Ruiz-Pérez El profesional de la información
  • Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.jul.16

Resumen

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.

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2017-08-02

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Artí­culos de investigación / Research articles

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Spanish researchers´ opinions, attitudes and practices towards open access publishing. (2017). Profesional De La información, 26(4), 722-734. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.jul.16