Open Access Concept and the Viewpoint of Academic Staff in Turkish Universities to the Institutional Repositories

Open access is accepted as a standard method to access the publications which are supported by the public funding that is increasingly important today since it removes the legal, commercial and technological obstacles and makes research results much more visible. Today, there are many universities in Turkey that have problems with constituting institutional repositories. Many of these problems are caused by the insufficient interest of the academic staff on the issue. Gathering data to understand the attitudes and opinions of the academic staff towards open acces and institutional repositories of the academic staff -who do/will participate in the institutional repositories of the universities with their works -is a prerequisite to the solution of the problems, the dissemination of the open acces and institutional repository awareness among the academic institutions and the creation of an environment of mutual cooperation. In this context, the target population of the study, where the descriptive method was employed, was restricted to the academicians of two universities, one of which achieved the transition processes to the institutional repository and the other which continues to do its workings to achieve this. The research data is gathered via documentary research, questionnaire and interview techniques.