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Factors influencing faculty attitudes towards open access institutional repositories
Author(s) -
Tmava Ahmet Meti,
Miksa Shawne D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401061
Subject(s) - popularity , context (archaeology) , theory of planned behavior , public relations , psychology , open access publishing , business , political science , social psychology , management , library science , economics , computer science , paleontology , control (management) , biology
Open access institutional repositories (OA IR) have increased in popularity in last decade. However, research shows they remain thinly populated in large part due to faculty reluctance to participate. The focus of previous research has been on external factor (social or technological context) and there is a lack of understanding of the internal factors and the psychology of the reluctance. This study investigated the factors affecting faculty participation in IRs and examined the extent to which these factors influenced faculty willingness to participate in IRs by drawing upon the theory of planned behavior and the model of factors affecting faculty self‐archiving.