From: Denise Koufogiannakis <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:20:48 -0600

Since both teaching faculty and librarian practitioners contribute to
the LIS literature, it would be very interesting to further break down
the data on research outputs to determine if both groups within the
LIS category are of the same opinion, or if there is further division.
My guess is that the librarian practitioners are more likely to be in
the group that would "like an alternative to academic papers to become
the main output of research."  I see there was a category for
identification as a practitioner, but many academic librarians in
North America are also considered faculty and may have titles such as
Assistant or Associate Professor, so it may not be possible to
accurately separate the data in order to answer my question. Would be
an interesting future study.

Denise Koufogiannakis
Collections & Acquisitions Coordinator
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:59:03 +0000
>
> Taylor & Francis investigated author’s values and attitudes
> surrounding research communication. 9 in 10 authors are in favour of
> academic papers remaining the principal outputs of academic research
> with no statistically significant variation between those answering
> from the perspective of what they think will happen those asked to
> select what they would like to happen.
>
> Subject Variations
>
> Analysing the responses regarding future types of research output by
> subject reveals a startling degree of homogeneity. With one exception,
> no subject across both the Science, Technical and Medical sphere and
> the Humanities and Social Science sphere varies by more than 5% from
> the all-subject average – both in terms of what authors think the
> future of academic papers is and what they would like it to be.
>
> The only significant variation in responses came from the Library and
> Information Science authors: more than a quarter of whom said they
> would like an alternative to academic papers to become the main output
> of research. Although, even amongst these authors, the proportion who
> said they think this will happen was only 4% above the average for
> Humanities and Social Science authors.
>
> Unlike all the other subjects, there is no majority view amongst
> Library and Information Science authors, with the proportion who
> responded by saying journals will remain the primary output down to
> just one-third (31% think and 34% like). To counter this, the
> proportion who think the future comprises a mixture of journals and
> repositories (44%) is more than double the Humanities and Social
> Science average (19%), just as the proportion who would like a mixture
> future (35%) is also more than double the Humanities and Social
> Science average (15%).
>
> Regional Variations
>
> Regionally, there is also very little variation in the preferred
> future direction of publication outlets, except in Australasia where
> there is a slightly higher propensity for authors to think that
> traditional journals will prevail, in the Middle East where slightly
> more think something new will emerge and China where a quarter of
> authors think that a significant proportion of research papers will be
> published only in repositories in the future.
>
> This bulletin is accompanied by Supplement 7 to the original report –
> which examines the subject, regional and country-level variations for
> each question regarding authors’ attitudes to metrics in full:
>
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-supp7.pdf
>
> The basic results from the full survey and a copy of the questionnaire
> can be found here and is available under a Creative Commons
> Attribution licence:
> www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf
>
> Follow us on Twitter for the latest news on the survey @TandFOpen (#oasurvey).
>
> Visit our newsroom at: http://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com
>
> For more information, please contact:
>
> Aalia Oosman, Library Marketing & Communications Manager
> Taylor & Francis Group Journals
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> http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey