[Forwarding from the U of Nottingham's Centre for Research Communications. --Peter Suber.]
The United Kingdom Council for Research Repositories and the Repositories Support Project invite repository staff in the UK to participate in a nationwide initiative to gauge researchers’ attitudes to open access generally, funding for open access publishing and the institutional repository specifically. We are asking you to carry out a standardised survey between April and June 2011. This is based on a survey carried out at the University of Huddersfield during Open Access week 2010 which revealed some interesting results. There are benefits for participating institutions such as raising the profile of the repository and also nationally in creating a body of evidence about researchers’ attitudes. All the information about participating in the survey is available in a download from the RSP blog: http://rspproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/unlocking-attitudes-to-open-access-in-the-uk/ Best wishes Jackie Jackie Wickham Open Access Adviser (Repositories Support Project) Centre for Research Communications University of Nottingham A31 Greenfield Medical Library Queens Medical Centre Nottingham NG7 2UH T: +44 (0)115 8466389 F: +44 (0)115 8467577 Mobile: 07825 753982 jacqueline.wick...@nottingham.ac.uk http://www.rsp.ac.uk http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk
