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Wednesday, 3rd February 2010

PEER Releases Baseline Report on Repositories use by Authors and Users

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The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) has announced that the PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University has completed its behavioural baseline report on authors and users vis-à-vis journals and repositories. The report, now available at http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/, is based on an electronic survey of authors (and authors as users) with more than 3,000 European researchers and a series of focus groups. These cover the medical sciences; social sciences, humanities & arts; life sciences; and physical sciences & mathematics. PEER is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community.

The baseline report outlines findings from the first phase of the research and identifies the key themes to emerge. It also identifies priorities for further analysis and future work. According to the report, an individual’s attitude towards open access repositories may change dependent on whether they are an author or a reader - readers being interested in the quality of the articles but authors also focused on the reputation of the repository itself. Reaching the target audience is the overwhelming motivation for scholars to disseminate their research results and this strongly influences their choice of journal and/or repository.

Access the Complete Report (74 pages; PDF)

Source: PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research)
Hat Tip: Knowledgespeak


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