Open Access Journals: Knowledge and Attitudes among Cuban Health Researchers

Sánchez Tarragó, Nancy and Fernández Molina, Juan Carlos Open Access Journals: Knowledge and Attitudes among Cuban Health Researchers. MEDICC Review, 2007, vol. 10, n. 1, pp. 18-21. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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A descriptive, cross-sectional study is presented whose objective was to determine the level of knowledge about and the attitudes toward open access journals among Cuban health researchers. To this end, a printed questionnaire was distributed between March and June 2007 to a group of researchers from Cuban national health institutes, who were chosen through stratified random sampling (160 researchers from 11 institutes). Variables included level of information about Open Access Movement terms and initiatives; papers published in open access journals; and reasons to publish, or not to publish, papers in such journals. Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and correspondence analysis were done using the SPSS statistical software, version 10.0 for Windows. Little knowledge of open access journals and other Open Access Movement terms and initiatives, and little use of open access journals as a publication means, were observed.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Open access journals; Cuba; research institutes; Open Access Movement
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
B. Information use and sociology of information
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: Nancy Sanchez
Date deposited: 22 Jan 2008
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:10
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11027

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