Bhuva Narayan, Edward J. Luca, Belinda Tiffen, Ashley
England, Mal Booth, Henry Boateng (2018). Scholarly Communication
Practices in Humanities and Social Sciences: A Study of Researchers’
Attitudes and Awareness of Open Access. Open Information Science 2(1),
168–180. https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2018-0013
This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and
adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a
survey research design, we collected data from academics and other
researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a
university in Australia. We looked at factors influencing choice of
publishers and journal outlets, as well as the use of social media and
nontraditional channels for scholarly communication. We used an online
questionnaire to collect data and used descriptive statistics to analyse
the data. Our findings suggest that researchers are highly influenced
by traditional measures of quality, such as journal impact factor, and
are less concerned with making their work more findable and promoting it
through social media. This highlights a disconnect between researchers’
desired outcomes and the efforts that they put in toward the same. Our
findings also suggest that institutional policies have the potential to
increase OA awareness and adoption. This study contributes to the
growing literature on scholarly communication by offering evidence from
the HASS field, where limited studies have been conducted. Based on the
findings, we recommend that academic librarians engage with faculty
through outreach and workshops to change perceptions of OA and the
institutional repository.
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