RoMEO Studies 3: Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets, How academics expect to use open-access research papers, a preprint submitted to the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Abstract: "This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they
expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the
RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways
in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are
described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access
research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO
Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/02/2003 07:08:00 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.
