Research Article

Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus

Authors
  • Jere Odell orcid logo (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Indianapolis IN)
  • Kristi Palmer (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Emily Dill (Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus)

Abstract

Access to scholarship in the health sciences has greatly increased in the last decade. The adoption of the 2008 U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy and the launch of successful open access journals in health sciences have done much to move the exchange of scholarship beyond the subscription-only model. One might assume, therefore, that scholars publishing in the health sciences would be more supportive of these changes. However, the results of this survey of attitudes on a campus with a large medical faculty show that health science respondents were uncertain of the value of recent changes in the scholarly communication system.

Keywords: Open access, attitudes, disciplinary differences, health sciences

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Odell, J., Palmer, K. & Dill, E., (2017) “Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 5(1), eP2169. doi: https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2169

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Published on
07 Nov 2017
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