FACTORS AFFECTING FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (OA IR): UNT CASE STUDY

Ahmet Meti Tmava

PhD Candidate, College of Information

Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium

University of North Texas

Percentage of respondents from each college

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

College of Artsand Sciences

College ofBusiness

College ofEducation

College ofEngineering

College ofInformation

College ofMerchandising,Hospitality and

Tourism

College of Music College of PublicAffairs andCommunity

Service

College of VisualArts and Design

Librarians

12%

8%

17%

6%

50%

9%

6%

34%

4%

35%

Percentage of respondents

Participants by age, sex, college, rank and status

2% 16% 26% 27% 24% 5% 54% 46% 37% 9% 11% 6% 10% 2% 5% 12% 2% 11% 33% 24% 10% 33% 57% 10% 34%3

27

43 4540

9

90

77

61

1518

1016

38

20

3

18

56

41

17

55

94

16

56

% Count

Overall awareness of OA declarations, UNT OA policy

37.50%

63

62.50%

105

%

Count

Familiar with OA declarations

No Yes

48.19%

80

51.81%

86

%

Count

Awarness of UNT OA policy

No Yes

Familiarity with OA declarations by age, sex, college, rank and status

0

33.33

39.53

47.73

27.5

44.44

35.9640.26

35

2016.67

30

75

0

12.5

35

0

72.22

33.93 32.535.29

45.45

34.4137.5

42.86

100

66.67

60.47

52.27

72.5

55.56

64.0459.74

65

8083.33

70

25

100

87.5

65

100

27.78

66.07 67.564.71

54.55

65.5962.5

57.14

Yes No

Awareness with UNT OA policy by age, sex, college, rank and status

0

38.5

58.1

47.7 47.5

37.5

48.9 47.4 46.7

13.3

25

10

56.3

66.7

5055

0

100

40

60

43.849.1 48.9

40

48.2

100

61.5

41.9

52.3 52.5

62.5

51.1 52.6 53.3

86.7

75

90

43.8

33.3

5045

100

0

60

40

56.350.9 51.1

60

51.8

Yes No

Contribution to any type of OA repository

0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

70.00%

Never Sometimes About half the time Most of the time Always

66.27%

26.04%

1.18%5.33%

1.18%

Theoretical framework for the study

Attitude towards participation

Perceived copyright concerns Perceived plagiarism issues Perceived technical barriers Perceived as low quality Perceived concerns about time

Influence of subjective norms on faculty participation Altruism Academic reward Academic culture &

collaboration Discoverability and ease of

access

Perceived control for

participation Self-efficacy Controllability

Behavioral Intentions

Self-reported

Intrinsic factors Altruism

Contextual factors Academic reward Peer-pressure Communication with

peers

Individual traits Rank Number of publications Age Technical skills

Theory of Planned Behavior

Extrinsic factors Academic reward Professional recognition Accessibility Publicity Trustworthiness

Cost Additional time & effort Copyright concerns

Model of faculty self-archiving behavior Predictor variables

Outcome Variable

Intent to deposit or NOT to deposit

Mea

sure

d b

y

PCA analysis results for factors affecting faculty attitudes towards OA IR

Name of variables Factor

order

% of variance

accounted for

Cronbach’s

Alpha

Altruism (ALT) 1 24.8 .878

Perceived Plagiarism Issues (PPI) 2 10.9 .943

Perceived Difficulty with

Submission (PDS) 3 8.5 .849

Influence by Academic Culture

(ACUL) 4 6.2 .863

Influence by Academic Reward

(AREW) 5 5.6 .835

Perceived Low Quality Venues

(PLQV) 6 4.6 ..876

Perceived Additional Time

Needed (PATN) 7 3.9 .841

Perceived Copyright Concerns

(PCC) 8 3.7 .731

Self-efficacy (SE) 9 3.3 .789

Discoverability Access and

Readership (DAR) 10 2.5 .906

Controllability (CO) 11 2.3 .628

Intent to deposit by age, sex, college, rank and status

0

45.8

58.1

71.1

38.233.3

58.1

44.447.1

21.4

38.5

22.2

84.6

0

71.4

35.3

50

100

49

56.7

38.5

57.8

51.3

41.7

59.6

100

54.2

41.9

28.9

61.866.7

41.9

55.652.9

78.6

61.5

77.8

15.4

0

28.6

64.7

50

0

51

43.3

61.5

42.2

48.7

58.3

40.4

Yes No

Overall intention to participate in OA IR

52.9%

74

47.1%

66

%

Count

No Yes

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