The cost of access to scholarly research creates inequity for readers with varying resources. Open access publishing is an avenue to address this inequity. This research employed a survey of scholars to discover what they know and think about open access. The survey elicited both faculty and doctoral student perspectives. Data were analyzed according to rank and discipline. Although the majority of scholars across disciplines agreed that their work should be freely available to all readers, there were significant differences between disciplines regarding whether scholars had distributed their publications through open access. The survey instrument was examined through Exploratory Factor Analysis.

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处于十字路口的学术出版：开放获取的学术观点

获取学术研究的成本为拥有不同资源的读者造成了不平等。开放获取出版是解决这种不平等的途径。这项研究对学者进行了调查，以了解他们对开放获取的了解和看法。该调查引起了教师和博士生的观点。根据等级和学科对数据进行分析。尽管跨学科的大多数学者都同意他们的作品应该免费提供给所有读者，但在学者是否通过开放获取分发他们的出版物方面，学科之间存在显着差异。调查工具通过探索性因素分析进行​​了检查。