Açık Erişim Farkındalığı: Başkent Üniversitesi. (Open Access Awareness: Başkent University)
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2010Author
Köse, Güven
Küçük, Mehmet Emin
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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.