Highlights from the SOAP project survey. What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing
Abstract
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has run a large-scale survey of the attitudes of researchers on, and the experiences with, open access publishing. Around forty thousands answers were collected across disciplines and around the world, showing an overwhelming support for the idea of open access, while highlighting funding and (perceived) quality as the main barriers to publishing in open access journals. This article serves as an introduction to the survey and presents this and other highlights from a preliminary analysis of the survey responses. To allow a maximal re-use of the information collected by this survey, the data are hereby released under a CC0 waiver, so to allow libraries, publishers, funding agencies and academics to further analyse risks and opportunities, drivers and barriers, in the transition to open access publishing.
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@article{arxiv.1101.5260,
title = {Highlights from the SOAP project survey. What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing},
author = {Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen and Robert Darby and Bettina Goerner and Jenni Hyppoelae and Peter Igo-Kemenes and Deborah Kahn and Simon Lambert and Anja Lengenfelder and Chris Leonard and Salvatore Mele and Malgorzata Nowicka and Panayiota Polydoratou and David Ross and Sergio Ruiz-Perez and Ralf Schimmer and Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5260},
year = {2011}
}
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Data manual available at http://bit.ly/gI8nct Compressed CSV data file available at http://bit.ly/gSmm71 Alternative data formats: CSV http://bit.ly/ejuvKO XLS http://bit.ly/e6gE7o XLSX http://bit.ly/gTjyvy