In 2006, the University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC), with the assistance of consultants from Greenhouse Associates, initiated a multiphase study that aimed to deepen understanding of faculty perspectives and behavior on a range of issues and developments within the scholarly communication arena. The study explores UC faculty members’ sense of the overall health of scholarly communication systems, and their perspective on the role of tenure and promotion processes, copyright, alternative and emerging forms of publication and dissemination, policy interventions, and key services that the University does or could supply, including those of its eScholarship publishing services. The survey results show a gap between attitude and behavior on the part of University of California ladder-rank faculty. The UC faculty largely conforms to conventional behavior regarding scholarly communication, such as publishing in traditional venues, but widely expresses a need for change in the current systems of scholarly communication.
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