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Authors and open access publishing
Author(s) -
Swan Alma,
Brown Sheridan
Publication year - 2004
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 - 10.1087/095315104323159649
Subject(s) - publishing , open access publishing , free access , open access journal , access to information , electronic publishing , library science , political science , computer science , world wide web , information access , medline , law , the internet , scopus
Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of ‘self‐archiving’ was less. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not published in an open access journal attributed that to unfamiliarity with such journals. Forty per cent of authors have self‐archived their traditional journal articles and almost twice as many say they would do so if required to.