Researchers' green open access practice: a cross-disciplinary analysis

• Published in: Journal of documentation Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 334 - 359
• Main Authors: Spezi, Valérie, Fry, Jenny, Creaser, Claire, Probets, Steve, White, Sonya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 10.05.2013; Emerald
• Subjects: Academic Libraries; Attitudes; Authors; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Behavioural; Communication (Thought Transfer); Culture; Design engineering; Exact sciences and technology; Humanities; Information and communication sciences; Information Needs; Information science. Documentation; Institutional repositories; Interdisciplinary subjects; Libraries; Library and information science. General aspects; Life sciences; Management Systems; Mathematics; Medical research; Norms; Open access; Open access publishing; Periodicals; Polls & surveys; Psychological Patterns; Readers; Repositories; Researchers; Scholarly communication; Scholarly publishing; Sciences and techniques of general use; Social sciences; Strands; Studies; Subscriptions; Working groups; Workshops; Repositories; Behaviour; Research work; Attitudes; Self-archiving; Open access; Disciplinary differences; PEER project; Attitude; Project; Research worker; Scientific research; User behavior

Purpose - This paper aims to report on the findings of the second phase of the Behavioural strand of the EC-funded PEER project (http: www.peerproject.eu ). The paper seeks to explore authors' and readers' behaviours in relation to authors' peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts in open a...