Survey of Research-Oriented Faculty, Experience of Open Access & Open Science

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This 88-page report looks at how research faculty have been influenced by open access requirements to post research findings in pre-print archives, digital repositories, or otherwise make research findings available through open access venues.  In addition, the report explores spending on open access publication fees, presenting detailed data on such spending, broken down by various variables. 

The report looks at data gathered from 378 higher education faculty drawn from a stratified universe with an emphasis on STEM and is broken out by numerous institutional and personal variables including college or university type, size, and public/private status, as well as by personal respondent level of lifetime grant receipts, age, gender, work title and academic field.

The data is broken out for 20 subject areas, and separately for research universities, doctoral institutions, BA and community colleges.

In addition, the report breaks down which departments or entities pay article publication fees for authors, determining precise shares for funding agencies, academic departments, academic libraries, college or university administration as well as authors themselves.

Specialized survey data you won’t find anywhere else

The Survey of Research-Oriented Faculty, Experience of Open Access & Open Science features in-depth commentary and scores of data points in over 130 easy-to-scan charts and tables displaying critical data you can’t find in any other publication.

Just a handful of the findings in this report include:

• Computer Science faculty reported the highest rate of not pursuing a grant due to open access requirements
• Faculty in Visual Arts, Medicine, and Neuroscience/Psychiatry reported the highest rates of declining partnerships due to open access or open science  issues.
• Faculty with more than $5 million in lifetime grant receipts reported that a mean of 51% of their newly submitted publications were required to be made available through open access.
• Female respondents reported a higher mean sum of open access publication fees paid over the two year period ($3,782.65) compared to male respondents ($2,574.21).
• Academic departments covered 8.73% of total open access publication fees paid by the respondents over the past two years.

Best practice data you can trust

You can rely on the accuracy of the detailed data, commentary, and analysis provided in this unique report. It was compiled and written by James Moses, President of Primary Research Group. Mr. Moses is the author of hundreds of industry studies and benchmarking reports and is a former economist for the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Survey of Research-Oriented Faculty, Experience of Open Access & Open Science is available to purchase for $109 as a PDF.