Aim

Open Access fosters the exchange of academic research information by making publications free of charge and, wherever possible, available through open licences and without any technical barriers. Although the Open Access publication model is already well established in the natural sciences, there seems to be more resistance towards Open Access in the social sciences, including the field of vocational education and training research. The research project “Open Access in Vocational Education and Training Research” aims to uncover the conditions influencing the acceptance, dissemination and use of Open Access in vocational education and training research. The project is grounded in a sociology of knowledge approach and in media theory. It comprises of two parts. First, four structured group discussions are conducted as focus groups and analysed using a qualitative content analysis. This paper focusses on this first part of the research project, the implementation and analysis of the group discussions as well as the results thereof. The second part of the research project will be based on an online questionnaire built upon these results. The questionnaire will be sent out to authors involved in vocational education and training research in the second part of the research project.

Findings

The analysis of the group discussions reveals several thematic clusters. According to group discussion participants, the scope of their publications as well as transparent quality assurance procedures in publishing are particularly relevant. The reputation of their chosen publication medium is another central aspect. It also becomes clear that in some cases an information deficit regarding the financing of Open Access publications or accompanying licensing models exists. Finally, participants discuss changing literature research strategies and changes of work and reading practices. The latter being clearly discernible in an increasingly digitalised daily work routine of vocational education and training researchers, while academic research communication is also an important topic discussed.

中文翻译：

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职业教育和培训研究中的开放获取：来自四个有组织的小组讨论的结果

目标

开放获取通过免费提供出版物，并尽可能通过公开许可提供出版物，而没有任何技术障碍，从而促进了学术研究信息的交换。尽管在自然科学中已经很好地建立了开放获取出版模式，但是在社会科学中，包括职业教育和培训研究领域，似乎对开放获取的阻力更大。研究项目“职业教育和培训研究中的开放获取”旨在揭示影响在职业教育和培训研究中接受，传播和使用开放获取的条件。该项目以知识社会学和媒体理论为基础。它包括两个部分。第一，作为焦点小组进行了四个结构化的小组讨论，并使用定性内容分析进行了分析。本文着重于研究项目的第一部分，小组讨论的实施和分析及其结果。研究项目的第二部分将基于基于这些结果的在线问卷。问卷将发送给研究项目第二部分中从事职业教育和培训研究的作者。

发现

小组讨论的分析揭示了几个主题群。根据小组讨论的参加者，其出版物的范围以及出版过程中透明的质量保证程序尤其重要。他们选择的出版媒体的声誉是另一个中心方面。同样清楚的是，在某些情况下，存在与开放获取出版物或随附的许可模式的融资有关的信息不足。最后，参与者讨论了不断变化的文学研究策略以及工作和阅读习惯的变化。后者在日益数字化的职业教育和培训研究人员的日常工作中是显而易见的，而学术研究交流也是一个重要的话题。