[BOAI] Survey on OA and the Student User

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the ScholComm list.  --Peter Suber.]


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8XQWXX9

If time permits, I'd really appreciate any and all who can complete this
brief
survey in the next couple of weeks to gather some librarians' thoughts,
opinions, experiences, rants, and institutional policies on Open Access and
their student-users.

Much library literature focuses on the pros and cons of OA and all its
attendant hot-button issues, and while there is a great deal published
concerning educating teaching faculty to the benefits of publishing in OA
journals and creating institutional repositories, there hasn't been as much
attention paid to on how, if at all, the word gets out to students.
Since most studies indicate that faculty familiarity with OA publishing is
wide
but not deep, one can assume simply by working the reference or serials desk
that students' knowledge of what OA is rather scant. My research includes
looking at how schools working behind the scenes with tools like their link
resolvers, subject selectors, ERM's and Web committees and more in the
public
space of their Web pages to raise awareness and ease of access for students.
Part of gauging where we're at will include the results from this brief
survey.


Thanks in advance for taking the few minutes it'll take to do this survey.


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8XQWXX9
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