[Forwarding from the Primary Research Group. --Peter Suber.]<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use<br>
of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.<br>
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The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on<br>
Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty<br>
in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access<br>
movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with<br>
requests from librarians and who does not? Who gives their articles to<br>
repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How<br>
many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or<br>
academic department?<br>
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The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education<br>
faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate<br>
and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college,<br>
academic title and other factors.<br>
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Just a few of the report's many findings are that:<br>
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* 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college's institutional<br>
digital repository for scholarly research purposes.<br>
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* Use was greatest by faculty at specialized colleges, of whom 40% had used a<br>
digital repository at some time for research purposes<br>
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* About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open<br>
access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.<br>
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* Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of<br>
digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually<br>
contributed an article to one of them.<br>
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* 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the term 'open<br>
access'. Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum were more<br>
likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.<br>
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* Older faculty were more likely than younger faculty to be mystified by open<br>
access and digital repositories. Almost 43% of faculty between the ages of 50<br>
and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were.<br>
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For further information view our website at <a href="http://www.PrimaryResearch.com" target="_blank">www.PrimaryResearch.com</a><br>
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