[GOAL] Re: International survey on scholarly communication - and its relevance for open access

[Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)]

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for your comments. The preselected answer options in our survey are just a few examples out of way larger number of possible answers. Indeed, most respondents tick the option indicating that they use other tools as well and also specify those. The preselected answer options consist of a few well known options and some less well known alternatives. Together they give the respondents an idea of the range of possible answers. By the way, repositories are one of the preselected answer options for the question on what sites researchers use to archive/share publications. Also, we did put R in as one of the preselected answers in the question on tools used for analysis of data. The number of preselected answer options (7) is a trade-off between wanting to show all options and keeping the survey user friendly and thus having more people take and finish the survey.

More background on this international survey on research tool usage is here: https://101innovations.wordpress.com/

Happy to discuss further,
 
Best,

Jeroen
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Jeroen Bosman
scholarly communications librarian
Utrecht University Library
@jeroenbosman

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew A. Adams [mailto:aaa at meiji.ac.jp] 
Sent: vrijdag 22 mei 2015 2:43
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
Subject: Re: [GOAL] International survey on scholarly communication - and its relevance for open access


They have the "Access Request Button" listed as a source of full text, but 
bizarrely missed out "repositories" directly. Their list of software is also 
proprietary-heavy ignoring FLOSS tools such as PSPP (a GNU implementation of 
a stats package somewhat akin to SPSS) and R (a FLOSS implementation of a 
command-line stats tool - the commercial equivalent "S" is rarely used). 
Academia.edu is included as a tool to promote one's work, but not as a tool 
to find the work of others.




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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/