Open Access in Croatia : a Study of Authors' Perceptions

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Open Access in Croatia a Study of Authors'
Perceptions

• Ivana Hebrang Grgic, MA
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• University of Zagreb

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Open Access

• Citation impact
• Reasons for OA Advantage
• Authors perceptions of OA

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Earlier Surveys

• Cozzarelli, 2004
• Swan Brown, 2006
• Schroter Tite, 2006

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The Present Survey

• Croatian scientists perceptions of Open Access
  movement
• Anonymous Web questionnaire
• 10 questions
• 345 authors, articles published in the latest
  2008 issues on Hrcak
• 170 respondents ? response rate 49.3

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Scientific field
Scientific field No. of respondents Percentage
Humanities 46 27
Social sciences 41 24
Natural sciences 28 17
Biomedicine and health 19 12
Technical sciences 18 10
Biotechnical sciences 18 10
Total 170 100
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Papers/year
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Publishing in OA journals
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Reasons for publishing in OA journals
Reasons for publishing in OA journal Respondents
Support of free access to scientific information 55
Higher citation impact 37
No reason 34
Short submission/acceptance process 22
Journal reputation 18
Higher impact factor of the journal 18
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Reasons for not publishing in OA journals
Reasons for not publishing in OA journals Respondents
No reason 82
Lower citation impact 12
Cant find appropriate OA journal 8
Lower quality of OA articles 4
Bad reputation of OA journals 3
Do not support free access to scientific information 3
Problems with permanent access to OA journals 1
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Self-archiving
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Location of self-archived articles
Location Respondents
CROSBI 69
Institutional web site 25
Repository other than institutional 16
Their own web site 12
Institutional repository 8
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Self-archived version
13
Self-archiving permission
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Conclusion

• The meaning of the term OA?
• The meaning of the term self-archiving?
• Support of free access to scientific information
• OA to Croatian scientific papers

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