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RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers

Gadd, Elizabeth and Oppenheim, Charles and Probets, Steve (2003) RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers.

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This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics.

Keywords:Romeo Project, copyright, Open archive
Subjects:E. Publishing and legal issues.
ID Code:1427
Deposited By:Marchitelli, Andrea
Deposited On:27 May 2004
Alternative Locations:http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%203.pdf
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