42 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
18. In presentations, handouts, Web sites, videos, etc., what are the main topics that library staff are
addressing when educating authors about author addenda? Check all that apply. N=42
Copyright law 41 98%
Institutional repository 30 71%
Freedom to use their work in the classroom or
through a course management system 30 71%
Freedom to share their work with colleagues 29 69%
Ability to create derivative works 23 55%
Other self-archiving (i.e., personal Web site) 14 33%
Other 13 31%
Please describe other topics.
Compliance with funder requirements.
Compliance with NIH Public Access Policy.
Compliance.
Freedom to post to disciplinary repositories (a kind of sharing with colleagues, but seems important enough
to name separately.) In terms of derivative works, our emphasis tends to be on reuse/repurposing in future
publications and the classroom.
Increased citations from publishing in open access environment.
NIH Mandate.
Promotion of Open Access. We are finding that many faculty are eager to support OA, especially when they realize
that many people in the country and the world now have Internet access, but do not have funds to purchase
access to journals.
Public access mandates.
See UCLA SCSC Website — http://staff.library.ucla.edu/scholarlycommunication/ See UC Office of Scholarly
Communication — http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Select publisher who is willing to accept author addenda and has open access options.
The main emphasis is on the fact that by faculty retaining their author rights they are able to do the self-archiving,
have freedom to use their materials as they wish, create derivative works, etc that they signed away when they
signed the publisher agreement without the addendum. The vast majority of faculty have been doing these
activities all along without realizing that in most cases they are violating the agreements they have signed and
seem quite stunned by this information.
18. In presentations, handouts, Web sites, videos, etc., what are the main topics that library staff are
addressing when educating authors about author addenda? Check all that apply. N=42
Copyright law 41 98%
Institutional repository 30 71%
Freedom to use their work in the classroom or
through a course management system 30 71%
Freedom to share their work with colleagues 29 69%
Ability to create derivative works 23 55%
Other self-archiving (i.e., personal Web site) 14 33%
Other 13 31%
Please describe other topics.
Compliance with funder requirements.
Compliance with NIH Public Access Policy.
Compliance.
Freedom to post to disciplinary repositories (a kind of sharing with colleagues, but seems important enough
to name separately.) In terms of derivative works, our emphasis tends to be on reuse/repurposing in future
publications and the classroom.
Increased citations from publishing in open access environment.
NIH Mandate.
Promotion of Open Access. We are finding that many faculty are eager to support OA, especially when they realize
that many people in the country and the world now have Internet access, but do not have funds to purchase
access to journals.
Public access mandates.
See UCLA SCSC Website — http://staff.library.ucla.edu/scholarlycommunication/ See UC Office of Scholarly
Communication — http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Select publisher who is willing to accept author addenda and has open access options.
The main emphasis is on the fact that by faculty retaining their author rights they are able to do the self-archiving,
have freedom to use their materials as they wish, create derivative works, etc that they signed away when they
signed the publisher agreement without the addendum. The vast majority of faculty have been doing these
activities all along without realizing that in most cases they are violating the agreements they have signed and
seem quite stunned by this information.
