Supporting Open Access initiatives
Open Access Week 2011 is a global event now in its 5th year, promoting open access as a new norm in scholarly communication. To mark the event, which runs from 24 – 30 Oct 2011, the Library would like to share some of the results from a survey we ran earlier this year. The survey was part of a national initiative to create a body of evidence about researchers’ attitudes to open access.
As well as seeking opinions about open access in general, the survey asked about ‘self-archiving’ – “the open access route where the author makes a version of his/her publication available in a repository or other online open access service” and use of our Research Information system Pure.
See the Open Access survey results