However, their 'new report" announcements always offer some useful and interesting highlights. Here's what was made available for the following report:
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians to participate in repositories and who does not? Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or academic department?
The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.
Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
+ 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college's institutional digital repository for scholarly research purposes.
+ About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.
+ Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually contributed an article to one of them.
+ 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the term "open access". Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum were more likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.
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