@article{5c6f601540854362b205f8653c4495c8,
title = "How library and information science faculty perceive and engage with open access",
abstract = "This paper presents the inferential analysis of a systematic survey of North American library and information science (LIS) faculty awareness of, attitudes towards and experience with open-access scholarly publishing. The study reveals that engagement with open access is related to faculty rank and perceptions about tenure and promotion committee assessments of open-access publications. The perceived constraints of the tenure and promotion system within the academy impact LIS faculty engagement with open-access publishing in ways found in other academic disciplines. However, those who themselves engage with open access tend to assess publications in such venues more favourably than those without such publishing experience and are similarly more predisposed to believe that tenure and promotion committees would evaluate such publications favourably. Nonetheless, while in general it is clear that experience with open access reduces some of the concerns about the effects of this type of scholarly publishing on career opportunities, there remains a substantial amount of equivocacy among LIS faculty about open access.",
keywords = "Faculty authors, journals, library and information science faculty, open access, open-access publishing, scholarly communication",
author = "Wilhelm Peekhaus and Nicholas Proferes",
note = "Funding Information: External actors may be able to play a role in addressing this polarization. Funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are in a position to influence and shape engagement with open access among funding recipients through the creation of open-access policy mandates. For example, in response to the February 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum that directed all federal agencies that expend over US$100 million annually for research and development to develop plans to support open access, the NSF instituted such a policy change in March 2015. For new awards resulting from proposals submitted on or after January 2016, researchers will be required to deposit in an online repository designated by NSF either the version of record or the final peer-reviewed manuscript. Such publications must be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge no later than 12 months after initial publication of the peer-reviewed journal article []. IMLS encourages rather than mandates funding recipients to deposit in a publicly accessible disciplinary or institutional repository the final peer-reviewed manuscripts resulting from research financed by an award []. NEH does not yet have a formal policy requiring open access archiving or publication (although it should be noted that this agency{\textquoteright}s R&D budget falls short of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy US$100M threshold). Canada{\textquoteright}s major federal funding agencies, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), recently issued a harmonized policy on open access that will apply to all new grants from 1 May 2015. This unified approach, which is modelled on CIHR{\textquoteright}s 2007 Open Access Policy, stipulates that results arising from agency-supported research must be freely accessible online within 12 months of publication. The open-access requirement may be satisfied through deposit of the article in an electronic repository or publication in an open-access journal or a journal that offers open access on its website within 12 months []. Such funder-mandated policies requiring open access to results from federally funded research should provide important impetus for surmounting some of the current challenges to the broader uptake of open-access publishing among (LIS) faculty. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1177/0165551515587855",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "41",
pages = "640--661",
journal = "Journal of Information Science",
issn = "0165-5515",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "5",
}