INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to understand TAMU faculty awareness of open access (OA)publishing; assess their attitudes towards, and willingness to, contribute to an institutional repository (IR); andinvestigate their perceptions of newer OA trends and resources, including Open Educational Resources (OER)and DMPTool. The survey also served as an outreach tool to inform and educate TAMU faculty about OApublishing, the IR, and the Libraries? OA services. METHODS The 34-question survey was conducted betweenNov. 6?Dec 15, 2014 using Qualtrics, a web-based survey tool. Responses were anonymous, and participantswere prevented from answering the survey more than once. Two hundred ninety-five faculty responded to thesurvey, resulting in a response rate of 11 percent. RESULTS Survey results suggest that tenured faculty are moreengaged and interested in OA publishing topics in general, and tenure-track faculty are more willing to adoptnew initiative such as Open Textbooks. Overall, the responding TAMU faculty are willing to consider publishingin OA publications, and almost half of them believe OA journal publications are acceptable for consideration oftenure and promotion in their departments. Despite their positive attitudes towards OA publishing, they are notso positive towards OA mandates. The survey also revealed there is a low awareness level of the TAMU IR, as wellas of newer OA trends and resources. CONCLUSION The majority of responding TAMU faculty are aware of OAjournals in their fields, and indicated their willingness to publish in an OA publication. Being unaware of theIR deposit process stood out as the greatest barrier that accounts for the low IR participation rate at TAMU. Inline with previous studies, copyright concerns, as well as the perception of IR contents as being of lower quality,are the second most significant barriers. Workshops or seminars on copyright, data management, and the IR arebadly needed. Several participants appreciated this survey because it provided many web links to the resourcesmentioned for them to explore further, and as a result they learned a lot from the survey. Despite our best effortsto make faculty aware of the abundance of resources made available by the Libraries, it seems that our audiencecontinues to remain unaware of some of our services and resources. This only reinforces the need for continuouscommunication?after all, there is no such thing as too many reminders.
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