1. Anna Maria Tammaro Pietro Gozetti Academic staff expectations on DSpace services: results of a survey at the University of Parma's Art and Humanities Faculty DSpace Federation 2nd User Group meeting, 7th July 2005

2. Outline Dspace@Unipr and its developing phases Aims, context and methodology of the survey in the Arts and Humanities Faculty Results of the survey Conclusions and recommendations

3. Dspace@Unipr Project started in November 2003, financed and organized by Commission for University of Parma Libraries. Two phases: 1. Pilot phase (November 2003 - June 2004) developing the repository in the first few communities; 2. Developing phase (from July 2004) expanding the repository to the whole Faculty. Future: network of italian OAI based repositories.

4. The survey objectives Knowledge, inclination and disponibility towards e-publication by humanistic academic authors; Academic authors’ preferential channels for disseminating their e-publications; Behaviour and sensitiveness about preservation, copyright, peer-review and open access; Perception, attitudes and use of open access repositories in a humanistic area; Conditions to make authors participate to DSpace; Kinds of materials more suitable for being included in DSpace; Academic authors’ disponibility towards self-archiving.

5. Context and methodology Ten departments in the Arts and Humanities Faculty (125 professors and researchers) Questionnaire available for filling for 23 days (22nd March – 14th April 2004) Questionnaire sended through mail and e-mail Response rate has been 52,8% Quantitative data gathered were related to two variables (reference department and qualification).

6. Questionnaire structure 3 questions related to variables (department, qualification and course held by respondents) 5 questions related to objectives: 1. Use of e-publishing; 2. Preferences about online publishing places; 3. Attitude towards particular conditions of use; 4. Preferences as regards kinds of resources to be included in DSpace; 5. Disponibility to self-archiving.

7. Relationship authors/e-publication 35% have made available on the web their research or learning materials 32% of them are researchers 20% of them are related to the Cultural Heritage Department 65% have never published online 39% of them are researchers as well 17% of them are related to the History Department

8. Where authors prefer to publish online Department site 36,8% Personal site 18,4% Disciplinary electronic archives 15,8% (mostly Department of Philosophy) Open access e-journals 15,8% (mostly researchers with 25%) Other 7,9% Open access conferences 5,3%

9. Conditions to partecipate to Dspace 1 Protection from alteration 83,3% Protection from plagiarism 75,7% (especially researchers with 91,6%) Possibility to continue publishing on traditional supports 74,2% (especially ordinary professors with 72,2% and Department of Cultural Heritage with 22,5%) Access restriction to particular users 33,3%

10. Conditions to partecipate to Dspace 2 Permanent preservation 27,2% (especially Departments of Psicology and Foreign Languages and Literature with 26,5%) No evaluation through peer-review 13,6% Evaluation through peer-review 7,6% Other 6% No conditions 3 %

11. Kinds of materials Articles 83,3% Courses programmes 77,3% Learning materials 72,7% Lecture notes 40,9% Books 34,8% Books’ chapters 34,8% Datasets 34,8% Images 34,8% Pre-print 33,3% Theses 28,8% Presentations 27,3% Maps 18,2% Working papers 15,2% Software 9,1% Technical reports 7,6% 3D Images 6% Oral recordings 6% Printed music 4,5% Sound recordings 4,5% Video 4,5% Music recordings 3%

12. Non textual materials History and Cultural Heritage departments ask for images (81,8% and 66,7%) Department of History asks for maps (72,2%)

13. Attitude to self-archiving 63% is favourable (especially researchers with 70,8% and Cultural Heritage Department with 77,8%) 32% is unfavourable (especially Geographic Sciences Department with 66,6%) 5% didn’t respond Authors feel unable to manage self-archiving under a technical point of view

14. Conclusions Academic authors are favourable to publish online but only a third of them do it already; Academic authors’ preferential channels for disseminating their e-publications are “near” sites, as department site: they seem to consider Dspace as a learning tool rather than a way for disseminating their research results (as demonstrates poor consideration of peer-review and preservation); Academic authors fear plagiarism and alteration for their works on DSpace; They are mostly for totally open access; Academic authors generally don’t consider non-textual kinds of materials, which are useful for learning; Academic authors’ disponibility towards self-archiving is excellent, but conditioned by training.