Açık Erişim Farkındalığı: Başkent Üniversitesi. (Open Access Awareness: Başkent University)

Abstract

Open access means providing free access to scientific papers or storage of a copy of these papers in at least in one online archive. The main purpose of open access is to increase the effects of research by providing users with easy and free access to the results of the research. In the scope of this research 296 academics working for Başkent University have were sent a questionnaire consisting of questions about awareness of open access, willingness to use open access, transferring copyrights to publishers. The responses of the 70 academics answering the questionnaire were evaluated. The results obtained suggest that most of the academics working for Başkent University are aware of open access and most of them use open access archives to meet their information needs.