> (4) Author reports, from Swan & Brown's two international, > cross-disciplinary surveys, that they are busy, overloaded, and > will only self-archive if/when they are required to do so by the > employers and/or funders, but if they are so required, 79% report > they will do it WILLINGLY, 17% that they will do it reluctantly, > and only 4% that they will not do it.
I can now report that I have completed the data analysis for the latest survey on self-archiving and the results on this issue of mandating are as follows: Percentage of authors who would willingly self-archive if their employer or funder required them to do so = 81% Percentage who would do so reluctantly = 13% Percentage who would not self-archive, even with a mandate = 5% The 'most willing' country is the USA, where 88% of authors would self-archive willingly under a mandate and a further 11% would self-archive reluctantly. The 'least willing' is China, where 58% would self-archive willingly and 32% would do so reluctantly. The report is now written and out with reviewers. It will be published by JISC shortly. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK