Abstract

SANCHEZ TARRAGO, Nancy  and  FERNANDEZ MOLINA, Carlos. Open Access Journals: Knowledge and Attitudes among Cuban Health Researchers. ACIMED [online]. 2008, vol.17, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1024-9435.

A descriptive, cross-sectional study is presented whose objective was to determine the level of knowledge about and the attitudes toward open access journals among Cuban health researchers. To this end, a printed questionnaire was distributed between March and June 2007 to a group of researchers from Cuban national health institutes, who were chosen through stratified randomized sampling (160 researchers from 11 institutes). Variables included level of information about Open Access Movement terms and initiatives; papers published in open access journals; and reasons to publish or not papers in such journals. Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and correspondence analysis were done using the SPSS statistical software, version 10.0 for Windows. Little knowledge of open access journals and other Open Access Movement terms and initiatives, and little use of open access journals as a publication means, were observed.

Keywords : Open access journals; Cuba; research institutes; Open Access Movement.

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