MY CHAPTER SIX EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 6: AFFECTIVE READINESS OF OPEN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION This chapter answered the Research Question 3 and presented the analysis and findings of the study while summarizes its reports based on the findings obtained from the study which has the following question: RQ3: What are the perceptions exhibited by Malaysian researchers towards Open Access Scholarly Publishing, Open Data and Open Peer Review? Perception in this regard referred to positive and negative feelings of scholars towards Open scholarly communication. From the analysis, there is evident that many of the researchers in Malaysia believed open peer review will ensure transparent, provide honest feedback, increased motivation and improve science, but the issue of timing in reviewing is a challenge and fear of negative comments is a concern to them. There is transformative belief that open data increases integrity, improve publishing transparent and used for different purposes yet, many of them were still skeptical about the sensitive or copyrighted information, which has disclosure there is evidence that many of the authors does not believe in openness in peer review. There is a mixed feeling in their levels of evidence that many of the authors do not like criticism and wrong or negative review reports on them. Therefore, funders and advocates of open science must look for ways of encouraging researchers and authors to involve in open scholarly communication. Furthermore, the chapter introduces and described the step taken to calculate the readiness of Malaysian academic researchers towards open scholarly communication. The findings show that: Malaysian researchers are Moderately Ready for Open Access in terms of Cognitive readiness. Also, their perceptions of Open Access are Moderately Ready; while in the area of practices Open Access, they are Somewhat Ready. In terms of Open Data, they are Somewhat Ready for Open Data Cognitive, Conation/Practices and Affective/Perception, respectively. Similarly, for their Open Peer Review Readiness Index, it shows that they are Somewhat ready too in terms of cognitive, conative and affective of Open Peer Review based on their weighted scores. The researcher, therefore, concludes that Malaysian Scholars are Somewhat ready for Open Science. Finally, categorizing the scholars -based on their readiness index on levels of cognition, conative and affection towards open science, the researcher used a modified method from Wagayan-Alicmas, and Ramos (2015), Shaizimah (2011), Ramachandran (2010) and Dalenius and Hodges (1959) to gauge their readiness and concludes that Malaysian scholars are Strollers. They are moving on with the trends of open science but with not consistent in terms of awareness, on practices, they sometimes practice open scholarly communication while in terms of perception, they are neutral/unpredictive on it. Chapter seven discusses the hypotheses of the study.