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Self-Archiving Journal Articles: A Case Study of Faculty Practice and Missed Opportunity
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 9, Number 2, April 2009
- pp. 223-251
- 10.1353/pla.0.0042
- Article
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Carnegie Mellon faculty Web pages and publisher policies were examined to understand self-archiving practice. The breadth of adoption and depth of commitment are not directly correlated within the disciplines. Determining when self-archiving has become a habit is difficult. The opportunity to self-archive far exceeds the practice, and much of what is self-archived is not aligned with publisher policy. Policy appears to influence neither the decision to self-archive nor the article version that is self-archived. Because of the potential legal ramifications, faculty must be convinced that copyright law and publisher policy are important and persuaded to act on that conviction.