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USE OF OPEN ACCESS BY ENGINEERING FACULTY : A CASE STUDY OF AISSMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING , PUNE,
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
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USE OF OPEN ACCESS BY ENGINEERING FACULTY : A CASE STUDY OF AISSMS COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING , PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
Vrushali Dandawate Librarian
AISSMS College of Engineering, DOAJ Ambassador , India
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Outline
Introduction What is Open Access Open Access Resources Literature review Case study of AISSMS College faculty for use of OA By
ONLINE SURVEY Findings
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Aim and Objective
To find out awareness of Open Access among Engineering Faculty
To find out which type open access resource is mostly used by them
To find out the need to open access training for faculty
To find out problem why faculty are not using open access for their study and teaching
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Methodology
Online Survey To accomplish the objectives of the study, an online survey
was conducted with the faculty members of AISSMS College of Engineering , Librarian has sent email of this online survey for this study to 304 faculty of Engineering College, twice reminder were sent but only 79 Faculty responded this on this survey
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Research findings (1/2)
76% faculty was aware about open access, 24% faculty was not aware about Open Access
(70.5 %) of faculty was using Open Access for their research work and teaching while 18 (29.5% ) faculty was not using Open Access for any purpose
42( 61.8 %) faculty was using Open Access journal for their research and teaching ,10 (14.7 %) faculty was using open database, 13 (19.1 %) faculty was using open repositories and only 3 (4.4%) faculty was using Open Access Books
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Research findings (2/2)
(47.4 % ) of faculty was aware about Directory of Open Access Journals database and they was using for the research work, 24( 31.6 %) was not using DOAJ database for research work and 16(21.1 % ) faculty was not aware about DOAJ database.
Problems for not using open access Lack of internet speed Less Awareness of OA Resource Lack of time Unwillingness to learn and adopt new things Not availability of Full text
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Conclusion
Need to organize more sessions on Open Access for faculty Display information boards in Library for Open Access
Resources information Increase awareness among patrons
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What We did
Involved Teaching faculty in Open Access sessions during Open access Week 2016
Distributed pamphlets among faculty and students with Open Source Resources Details
Displayed Banners with Open Access Information details in Cafeteria
Conducted OA competition during Open Access Workshop
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Thank you