[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Higher Education Faculty 2023, Need for & Use of Information About Copyright, ISBN 979-8-88517-126-7

[Jose Mavarez]

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Higher Education
Faculty 2023, Need for & Use of Information About Copyright, ISBN
979-8-88517-126-7

This report looks closely at the extent and kind of information about
copyright practices needed by faculty at US colleges and universities.  The
report helps its readers to answer questions such as:  how much do faculty
need information about copyright? How much have they used and benefited
from information about copyright provided by academic libraries?  What
policies in this area do faculty want libraries to follow?  How satisfied
are they with current policies? What are the demographic characteristics of
faculty who have consulted attorneys about copyright issues? Which faculty
go to librarians and which rely on peers for copyright advice?  Which
copyright issues most concern faculty? Are they more inclined to query
about copyright issues related to open access? Or to issues related to
making material available in their classes? The study presents specific
data for faculty interest in a broad range of copyright issues, including
but not limited to open access, copyright for data, issues with commercial
article sharing platforms, negotiation of author contracts, use of
audio-visual materials, copyright issues in citation and much more.

This study is based on data from a survey of 806 higher education faculty
randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data
is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal
income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as
institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie
class, enrollment size, public or private status and others. Readers can
compare the copyright needs and practices of faculty in medicine to those
in the social sciences, for example, or to business faculty. Also,
copyright information consumption of associate professors can be compared
to that  for full professors, or copyright consultation practices of men to
that for women, etc. etc.

Just a few of this 118-page report’s many findings are that:

• Broken out by work title, associate professors had the strongest need for
information about copyright.
• 26.4% of full professors sampled had ever consulted a lawyer over a
copyright issue.
• Broken out by type of college, dissatisfaction with the services to
advise or inform about copyright practices was highest at specialized
colleges, such as seminaries, theater schools and other similar
institutions.
• 34.12% of survey participants felt that they had a need for copyright
advice about making their research available in repositories or other open
access venues.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=745
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