Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty

Open access (OA) publishing presents university librarians, administrators, and faculty researchers with a paradox of both opportunities and challenges. For faculty researchers in particular, the decision of whether to pursue OA publication of their scholarship is driven by their perceptions of the...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Lusk, Jeniece (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Jones, Kara (author), Ross, Alanna (author), Lecat, Veronique (author)
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Faculty perceptions
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Open access publishing
Scholarship
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description Open access (OA) publishing presents university librarians, administrators, and faculty researchers with a paradox of both opportunities and challenges. For faculty researchers in particular, the decision of whether to pursue OA publication of their scholarship is driven by their perceptions of the credibility and quality of OA publishing. While there is a variety of extant literature broaching these perceptions, there are few quantitative analyses with an n greater than 100 respondents, and a notable lack of research in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study mitigates this gap in scholarship regarding OA publishing, offering a quantitative analysis of a survey sample of 134 UAE faculty researchers. We find statistically significant findings regarding the relationship between one’s position on OA and length of publishing career and professorial rank. Similarly, we find that those with favourable views of OA publishing are more likely to believe that OA journals are peer reviewed, increase likelihood of being cited, allow authors to repost content, and are a more principled alternative to traditional publishers. Those who believe that their research should be freely available to all readers or that OA publishing broadens their research impact were also highly likely to hold favourable views of OA publishing. Finally, our findings suggest that support for OA publishing at the departmental and institutional level remains ambiguous, with findings yielding contradicting results on the matter. The study contributes to content regarding scholarship, library science, and university administration.
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spellingShingle Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
Lusk, Jeniece
Academic publishing
Faculty perceptions
Library science
Open access publishing
Scholarship
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title Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
title_full Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
title_fullStr Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
title_full_unstemmed Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
title_short Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
title_sort Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty
topic Academic publishing
Faculty perceptions
Library science
Open access publishing
Scholarship
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/24291