NARS Open Access Survey ::

NARS Open Access Survey

The aim of this survey is to evaluate the level of awareness and attitude towards Open Access of Scholarly Literature among Researchers in National Agricultural Research System (NARS). We kindly request you to spare few minutes to complete the following questionnaire.

Sridhar Gutam (gutam@iari.res.in) & G. Aneeja (aneeja@naarm.ernet.in)

Sincere thanks to Wiley-Blackwell and the American Society for Information Science and Technology, SPECTRa (a joint project between Cambridge University and Imperial College), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK for their kind permission to use some of their survey questions and Open Knowledge Society (OKS), India for hosting the survey online survey and other support.

Part A
Personal

*Full Name

Surname, Name

*Email

*Gender

Female
Male

*Discipline

*Job Title

*Organisation

Part B
Scholarly Communications

*Please list upto FIVE journal titles which you consider when submitting your research

*How many refereed journal papers have you written or co-written in the past THREE years?

Indicate in number

*Approximately how may refereed journals papers have you written or co-written in your CAREER?

Indicate in number

*Which of these roles, if any, have you undertaken in the past THREE years?

Check any that apply

Author of journal articles
Referee of journal articles
Editorial board member
Managing Editor
Editor-in-Chief

*How important or unimportant to you were the following factors when deciding to submit a paper to a journal?

	1	2	3	4	5
Speed of Reviewing
Standing of Editorial Board
Rating/Impact Factor
Popularity & Size of readership of the journal
Available Online
Available as Hard copy
Easy to get Accepted & Published
Coverage by Abstracting services
Scope of the Journal

1 = Not at all important; 2 = Not important; 3 = Neutral; 4 = Important; 5 = Very important

Comments on the above important or unimportant factors

*How do you access scholarly journal literature?

Check any that apply

Library subscribed print journals
Library consortia subscribed online journals
Personal subscribed journals (print, online)
Google Scholar search engine
Other Internet search engines
CAB abstracts (print, CD-ROM)
Current Contents (print, CD-ROM)
Thomson Reuters Products (online, print)

*How do you access the journals pertaining to your discipline regularly?

Check any that apply

I receive a print copy as a subscriber
I have online access as a member
I use the print copy in my library
I use a colleagues copy
I access through my library's electronic license
Other

*If you have your personal or official website, what kinds of materials you would post on your website?

Check any that apply

Pre-prints of papers that have been submitted for publication
The text of papers that have been accepted for publication
Revised texts of published work with comments
Post-prints of papers that have been published
Conference papers
Doctoral theses and dissertations
Datasets arising from projects
Technical Reports
Informal papers
Slides of presentations
Course materials
Other creative works (e.g., photographs, video, audio)

If there are any materials that you do not post to your website, why not?

Part C
Open Access

*How strongly do you associate the following charecteristics with Open Access Journals?

	1	2	3	4	5
Free to access
Author pays to publish
High quality
Ephemeral
Self-publishing
No hard copy journal
Radical
Not archived properly
Well indexed

[1 = Do not associate; 2 = Associate a little; 3 = Neutral; 4 = Quite strongly associate; 5 = Very strongly associate]

*To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about Open Access?

	1	2	3	4	5
Authors will publish more
Authors will have less choice over where they publish
Quality of papers will improve
Few papers will be rejected
Publishers will improve their services to authors
Papers will become less concise
Libraries will have more money to spend
Print journals will gradually disappear
It will be easier to get hold of papers
Archiving will suffer

[1 = Strongly disagree; 2 = Disagree a little; 3 = Neither agree or disagree; 4 = Agree a little; 5 = Strongly agree]

*To what extent do you agree or disagree that you would like to be able to use your published research in the following ways?

	1	2	3	4	5
Republish it elsewhere in its entirety
Personally deal with any permission request
Post it on an internal website
Post it on world wide web
Use it freely in teaching and learning
Deal personally with any legal disputes when copyright is infringed
Pass it on in electronic form to a colleague or interested party

[1 = Strongly disagree; 2 = Disagree a little; 3 = Neither agree or disagree; 4 = Agree a little; 5 = Strongly agree]

*Are there any thoughts or experiences you would like to share about the topics of this survey

[Exit and clear survey]