IP Outreach Research > IP Use and Awareness
Reference
Title: | Library Faculty Publishing and Intellectual Property Issues: A Survey of Attitudes and Awareness |
Author: | Howard Carter, Carolyn A Snyder and Andrea Imre [Southern Illinois University] |
Source: | Portal: Libraries and the Academy 7, no. 1: 65-79 |
Year: | 2007 |
Details
Subject/Type: | IP Protection |
Focus: | Access to Information, Copyright |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Objective: | To gain insights about the publishing activity of library faculty, including their awareness of copyright and intellectual property policies of publishers of scholarly journals and their willingness to self-archive their published articles. |
Sample: | 140 library faculty members from 10 academic research libraries |
Methodology: | Online survey via e-mail invitation |
Main Findings
65% of library faculty members surveyed reported having published at least one peer-reviewed article in a scholarly publication during the past five years. 10% indicated that they considered intellectual property and copyright policies when deciding on a potential publisher, and 36% said that those policies somewhat affected their decision (50% stated that their only concern was to have their article published).
Overall, more generous copyright policies for authors would influence publishing decisions moderately. 7% of respondents reported having negotiated for more author rights than usually offered by the publisher, and just one of them had tried and failed. Self-archiving (a method used by authors to deposit research papers in freely accessible online archives to allow wider dissemination of research) was not found to be very widespread: 12% had electronically archived their articles in an institutional repository, on their personal website, or on a departmental website. If mandated by their institution, 89% would willingly deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository.
Library faculty members are not practicing what they generally advocate: they are not considering the copyright and intellectual property policies of the publishers more often than the total faculty members in all disciplines; and they self-archive about one-half as much as the total faculty members in a major international study.
[Date Added: Dec 5, 2008 ]