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More data on faculty ignorance of OA Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services, a new report commissioned by Research Information Network and undertaken by Key Perspectives, April 2007. For our purposes, see esp. Section 9.4 on Open Access (pp. 58-65). Excerpt:
Comment. Section 9.4 thoroughly documents the still-widespread faculty ignorance of OA, OA repositories, and OA journals. This finding is two-edged. On the one hand, it's very discouraging, especially after all this time. On the other hand, it supports our claim that the problem is ignorance, not opposition. My experience is that it only takes a couple of minutes to excite faculty about OA, once you get their attention. The hard part is --still-- getting their attention. |