MY CHAPTER FOUR EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 4: COGNITIVE READINESS OF OPEN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION This chapter presents the demographic information of the respondents and answered the research question 1: To what extent are Malaysian academic researchers’ aware of open scholarly communication as regards to open access, open data and open peer review? It also describes the cross tabulations of the other findings and summarizes its reports based on the findings obtained from the study while concluding the chapter. The chapter presented the demographic information of the respondents and describes the awareness of Malaysian academic researchers towards open scholarly communication associated with three open science dimensions: open access, open data and open peer review. There are higher levels of awareness of open access. However, few researchers still lack the difference between open access and open science. There is little understanding about open data by the researchers, although, open data awareness is still low, a substantial portion of the scholars still have limited awareness of open data and its potentials. More so, there are also little awareness of open peer review as those that know are not keen about it benefits as shown in their mean scores. The next chapter presents findings on the open scholarly communication practices of Malaysian academic researchers which constitutes their conative readiness.