A Multi-method Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on Open Access Publishing

Abstract

Librarian faculty at the University of Michigan Library conducted two studies (a campus-level survey and interviews with faculty authors) regarding local and nuanced faculty attitudes about open access publishing across disciplines and career stages. These studies were performed for the dual purposes of engaging with our academic and clinical faculty to learn how they are impacted by the shift to open access publishing within the scholarly communication landscape, and to incorporate their perspectives into our current and future service planning related to the facilitation of access to scholarly publications. The approaches can be adapted by other institutions for gathering similar information and informing data-based decision making.