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Opportunities for open access: Insights from the Wiley Practitioner Survey
Author(s) -
Roscoe Jonathan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1357
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , certification , public relations , publishing , open access publishing , open science , professional association , political science , medical education , business , medicine , internet privacy , computer science , law , physics , astronomy
Key points There is less awareness of open‐access publishing amongst practitioners than amongst their academic colleagues. The requirement for certification is a significant driver of professional society membership, particularly for those in clinical and veterinary medicine. Flipping a society journal from a subscription model to fully open access may drive down satisfaction. Professional society members state a desire for increased collaboration with academics and feel that societies have a role to play in this. Satisfaction levels with society membership are generally low amongst early career members (ECMs), but there are some clear opportunities for targeted services to improve this. Awareness of open access is reasonably high, and there are calls for greater transparency and improved data sharing, particularly from ECMs and engineers.