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2014 Open Access Author Survey Annex D: Scandinavia

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Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey

Open Access Mandates

Annex D Scandinavia

September 2015


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The results presented in this report are based on research carried out on behalf

of Taylor & Francis by Will Frass, Senior Research Executive; Jo Cross, Head of

Research & Business Intelligence and Victoria Gardner, Open Access Publisher.

© Taylor & Francis / Routledge 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative

Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0),

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,

provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named

author(s) have been asserted.

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Lesser General Public License.

The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Rosie Norman.

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Contents

Survey Methodology ............................................................................................................................................................... 3

Survey Design .................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Population Surveyed .......................................................................................................................................................... 4

Response Rates .................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Sample Size ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Danish Research Council ......................................................................................................................................................... 6

Norwegian Research Council .................................................................................................................................................. 8

Swedish Research Council .................................................................................................................................................... 10


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Survey Methodology

Survey Design

This is an Annex to the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey report, available at Taylor & Francis Online:

http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014

Towards the end of the survey, authors were asked to select the country they are primarily based in. Those authors

selecting one of thirteen countries that have developed significant Open Access policies were directed to a page with a

brief summary of their country’s policies and some questions. Additionally, authors based in one of the 28 member states

of the European Union were also directed to a page about Horizon 2020.

This Annex to the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey covers the results from the sub-set of authors from both the

Main Survey and the European Mandates Survey who are based in Scandinavia proper – the three monarchies of Denmark,

Norway and Sweden – each of which has Research Council polices related to Open Access.

After the section on Regional Questions, authors who said they were primarily based in Denmark or Sweden were routed

along the path highlighted in red below before re-joining the Main Survey for the section on Open Access Services.

Authors who said they were primarily based in Norway were routed along the path highlighted in blue below before re-

joining the Main Survey for the section on Open Access Services.

* Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,

Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

Rest of the World

National Mandates

European Union: Horizon 2020 Policy

Open Access Services

National Mandates

Australia

Canada

Japan

Norway

United States

Austria

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

Sweden

United Kingdom

All other Member

States of the European

* Union *

Regional Questions

http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014


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Survey Methodology

Population Surveyed

The 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey was sent throughout March 2014 to authors published during the year 2012

(the subsequent year to the 2013 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey, which was sent throughout December 2012 to mid-

January 2013 to all authors published during 2011), who had not previously opted out of receiving surveys sent by the

Research and Business Intelligence Department.

Any author who had published more than one article in 2012 had their subsequent articles removed from the list before

mailing.

In order to ensure a sufficient number of responses to the questions around Open Access policies, a separate survey

comprising just the Open Access Mandates questions for European countries was compiled and sent to a further 15,000

non-corresponding European authors.

Response Rates

Both the Main Survey and the European Mandates Survey were sent via Survey Monkey’s email distribution interface.

The following methods were employed to maximize the response rates:

The survey invites were sent in batches by region timed to hit close to optimal time for survey responses;

The survey was incentivized with five prize draws, each for an Amazon Voucher to the value of 100 USD and the

chance to win a 1000 USD travel grant to attend an academic conference (Main Survey only);

Two follow-up emails were sent to non-respondents as a reminder.

The following table gives a breakdown of the response rates for each survey:

Population Emails sent

Emails bounced

Emails received

Survey respondents

Responses from Scandinavia

Main Survey 89,181 2,927 86,254 7,936 44 59 90

European Mandates Survey 15,565 0,891 14,674 0,596 13 – 17

Total 104,746 3,818 100,928 8,532 57 59 107


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Survey Methodology

Sample Size

Given that researchers from these countries comprise a much smaller proportion of Taylor & Francis’ published authors,

there are fewer respondents in this Annex compared to the Annexes covering the United Kingdom or the United States.

This necessarily affects the representativeness of the data: Taylor & Francis would not normally publish results for regional

sub-groups with fewer than 90 to 100 responses, since the number of responses in each sub-group necessarily affects the

robustness of the data.

Therefore, to strike a balance between releasing the data, and sample size considerations, the top level results for

Denmark, Norway and Sweden are published in this report, but no demographic breakdowns by subject, age or gender

have been provided.

However, it should be remembered that authors from Denmark and Sweden will also have answered questions about the

European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, and will therefore contribute to the sample in Annex C.


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How well do you understand this Policy?

Denmark Danish Research Council

16%

29%

16%

10%

38%

48%

18%

10%

11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

All Danish authors [n = 55 ]

Authors alreadyaware of the policy

[n = 21 ]

5 – I fully understand the policy 4 3 2 1 – I do not understand the policy

Introduction

Policy Type: Green Open Access

What do funded researchers have to do?

Health, natural sciences, engineering, agricultural and veterinarian sciences: if the journal permits it, deposit the Authors Accepted Manuscript version of articles in repositories within 6 months.

Social sciences and the humanities: if the journal permits it, deposit the Authors Accepted Manuscript version of articles in repositories within 12 months.

Further information: This summary of the policy has been created by Taylor & Francis for this purpose of this

survey. For complete and up to date information please follow the link below to visit the funder’s website. Please note that not all OA policies for Denmark are listed here. http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/cooperation-between-research-and-innovation/open-science/open-access-policy-for-public-research-councils-and-foundations

Publishing work under this

Policy

Have you published work under

this Act previously? [n = 55]

Yes 18% No 51% Unsure 31%

Will you publish work under this

Act in the future? [n = 56]


Awareness of the Policy

Are you aware of this Act?

[n = 57]

Yes 39% No 61%

http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/cooperation-between-research-and-innovation/open-science/open-access-policy-for-public-research-councils-and-foundations

http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/cooperation-between-research-and-innovation/open-science/open-access-policy-for-public-research-councils-and-foundations


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Denmark Danish Research Council

When publishing work under this Policy my work will...

9%

11%

9%

7%

40%

30%

30%

30%

28%

35%

39%

32%

9%

9%

5%

14%

5%

7%

7%

11%

11%

11%

11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

...be read by more people[n = 57]

...reach people outside of my field[n = 57]

...be more highly cited[n = 57]

...have a greater impact[n = 57]

5 – strongly agree 4 3 2 1 – strongly disagree N/A

Securing grant funding

Ease of compliance

5% 23% 42% 14% 5% 11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

This policy will help mesecure grant funding

for my research in future[n = 57]


16% 19% 33% 18% 11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

It will be easy to complywith this policy

[n = 57]



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Norway Norwegian Research Council

17%

24%

19%

26%

33%

29%

17%

12%

14%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

All Norwegian authors [n = 58 ]


[n = 34 ]


Introduction

Policy Type: Green Open Access


Deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript version of articles in repositories

No time period specified.

Further information: This summary of the policy has been created by Taylor & Francis for this purpose of this survey. For complete and up to date information please follow the link below to visit the funder’s website. Please note that not all OA policies for Norway are listed here.

http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/New+principles+for+open+access+to+ scientific+publications/1234130599613


Policy









[n = 59]

Yes 59% No 41%

http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/New+principles+for+open+access+to+scientific+publications/1234130599613

http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/New+principles+for+open+access+to+scientific+publications/1234130599613


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Norway Norwegian Research Council


25%

14%

7%

11%

31%

33%

29%

30%

22%

24%

34%

35%

8%

17%

17%

12%

12%

12%

12%

11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%







Ease of compliance

10% 17% 44% 10% 5% 14%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%




19% 27% 29% 10% 14%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%


[n = 59]



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Sweden Swedish Research Council

14%

21%

25%

33%

40%

33%

9%

7%

11%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

All Swedish authors [n = 107 ]


[n = 42 ]


Introduction

Policy Type: Green and Gold Open Access


Currently no criteria associated with Gold Open Access. From 2017, researchers must sign a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence when publishing their article.

If choosing Green Open Access, they must deposit their article in a repository within a maximum of 6 months (science, technology, and medical) or 12 months (social sciences, arts and humanities) from publication.

Further information: This summary of the policy has been created by Taylor & Francis for this purpose of this

survey. For complete and up to date information please follow the link below to visit the funder’s website. Please note that not all OA policies for Sweden are listed here.

http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/ generalconditionsforgrantapplications/openaccess


Policy









[n = 107]

Yes 39% No 61%

http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/generalconditionsforgrantapplications/openaccess

http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/generalconditionsforgrantapplications/openaccess


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Sweden Swedish Research Council


18%

12%

8%

12%

47%

38%

36%

25%

21%

28%

37%

44%

11%

6%

9%

9%

11%

9%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%







Ease of compliance

8% 16% 40% 14% 7% 16%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%




8% 24% 37% 11% 14%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%


[n = 106]


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