INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Open Access in Croatia : a Study of Authors' Perceptions Ivana Hebrang Grgić, MA Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Open Access Citation impact Reasons for OA Advantage Authors’ perceptions of OA

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Earlier Surveys Cozzarelli, 2004 Swan & Brown, 2006 Schroter & Tite, 2006

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” 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 Hrčak 170 respondents → response rate 49.3%

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Scientific field No. of respondents Percentage Humanities4627% Social sciences4124% Natural sciences2817%17% Biomedicine and health 1912%12% Technical sciences1810% Biotechnical sciences1810% Total170100%

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Papers/year

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Publishing in OA journals

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Reasons for publishing in OA journals Reasons for publishing in OA journalRespondents Support of free access to scientific information 55% Higher citation impact 37%37% No reason 34 % Short submission/acceptance process 22%22% Journal reputation 18%18% Higher impact factor of the journal 18%18%

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Reasons for not publishing in OA journals Respondents No reason 82%82% Lower citation impact 12%12% Can’t find appropriate OA journal 8%8% Lower quality of OA articles 4% Bad reputation of OA journals 3% Do not support free access to scientific information 3%3% Problems with permanent access to OA journals 1%1%

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Self-archiving

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Location of self-archived articles LocationRespondents CROSBI 69% Institutional web site 25% Repository other than institutional 16% Their own web site 12% Institutional repository 8%8%

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Self-archived version

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” Self-archiving permission

INFuture2009: “Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing” 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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