A few weeks back we asked faculty to participate in a survey about impressions of open access scholarly literature, that is, literature which is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. A big thank you to everyone who responded to the Tufts Scholarly Communication Team survey. A similar survey was also conducted in the fall of 2011. As promised, here are some quick numbers from both the 2011 and 2013 editions…
| 2011 (n=119) | 2013 (n=155) | |
| Favor a “Harvard-like” OA deposit mandate at Tufts | 88% | 89% |
| Would publish OA if didn’t have to pay personally | 81% | 86% |
| Would publish OA if available in their field | 75% | 80% |
| Know OA journals are peer-reviewed | 58% | 64% |
| Know about the pilot project POAF | 36% | 33% |
| Published in an OA journal in the Directory of Open Access Journals | 22% | 25% |
| Know they can often put pre-prints on Tufts websites | NA | 21% |
| Paid author fees to publish in an OA journal | 11% | 13% |
View more Open Access Faculty Awareness Survey results!
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