Romeo Studies 3: How Academics Expect to Use Openaccess Research Papers  

Oleh:

Gadd, Elizabeth ; Oppenheim, Charles ; Probets, Steve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 35 no. 3 (2008), page 171-188.
Fulltext: 171.pdf (898.76KB)

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This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISCfunded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with openaccess research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics.

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