[E]very UKPMC grant holder was e-mailed and asked to complete the online survey. We also e-mailed other interested parties and a link was added to the UKPMC and UKMSS home pages to enable non-grant holders to contribute. The survey was live for approx. 5 weeks and 905 responses were received...
The majority of responses came from research scientists actively engaged in biomedical research, most of which were UKPMC Funders Group grant holders....
Of those users who had yet to deposit papers, 13% did not know that they had to....
Q31: What, if any, barriers have you found with regard to complying with funders' open access mandates?
No barriers to complying with funders' OA mandate [number saying yes =] 220; [percentage saying yes =] 24.30%
Was not aware of funders' open access mandate 163; 18.00%
Don't know how to comply with funders' open access mandate 151; 16.70%
Funding not available to meet open access costs 257; 28.40%
My preferred publisher/journal does not allow open access 210; 23.20%
I am concerned about copyright issues 88; 9.70%
Other (please specify) 63; 7.00% ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/19/2008 02:25:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.