Study title

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The United Kingdom Survey of Academics, 2012, conducted by Ithaka S+R, Jisc, and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), examines the attitudes and behaviours of academics at higher education institutions across the United Kingdom. Thematically, the Survey of Academics covers resource discovery and current awareness, library collections and content access, the print to electronic format transition, academic research methods and practices, undergraduate instruction, publishing and research dissemination, the role and value of the academic library, and the role of the learned society. The UK Survey of Academics is designed to closely parallel the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012.

This study is also available at ICPSR along with the datasets for the United States surveys of academics (conducted triennially from years 2000 – 2012).
See ICPSR's Ithaka S+R, Jisc, RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012 webpage.


Main Topics:

Academics’ perceptions of academic publishing, scholarly practices, and libraries; Scholarly communications; Academics’ views and use of freely available materials for research and teaching.