Aineiston nimi

Scholarly Reading Practices Survey 2016

Aineistonumero

FSD3329

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3329

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Tenopir, Carol (University of Tennessee)
• Talja, Sanna (University of Tampere. Tampere Research Center for Information and Media (TRIM))
• Late, Elina (University of Tampere. Tampere Research Center for Information and Media (TRIM))
• Christian, Lisa (University of Tennessee)

Sisällön kuvaus

The study examined Finnish researchers' use of different printed and electronic publications in their work, such as scientific journals, articles, books, reports, and social media. The study is part of Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King's survey series launched in 1977 following the reading practices of researchers in different countries and scientific fields. Finnish data have also been collected in 2006 but this dataset has not been archived at the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. The 2016 project was partly funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

The survey charted researchers' common reading practices as well as publishing of different types of scientific articles and other publications. The way that the respondents' work time was distributed between different types of tasks was charted as well as how many publications of different types they had authored within the previous two years. It was also examined how researchers searched for information, published scientific work, and cited the work of others. Questions also covered how much time the respondents spent on reading articles, how many scientific articles and other types of publications they had read within the previous 30 days, how recent the publications that they read were, reasons for reading them, what language they were in, how they found the publications and received access, where they read the publications, which scientific field the publications represented, and how useful they considered different publication formats for their work.

The significance of social media was charted with questions regarding, for instance, how important different services and tools were for their work (e.g. blogs, cloud services, institutional repositories, academic online communities, reference management software). The respondents were also asked about how important different features of electronic publications were (e.g. compatibility and readability on different devices, possibility to share publications, advanced navigation features, global language support, possibility to embed audio into publications).

Background variables included scientific field, job title, age, and type of workplace.

Asiasanat

access to information; information retrieval; publishing industry; reading (activity); research; research workers; social media

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Media (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Information society (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Kerääjät

• Tenopir, Carol (University of Tennessee)
• Talja, Sanna (University of Tampere. Tampere Research Center for Information and Media (TRIM))
• Late, Elina (University of Tampere. Tampere Research Center for Information and Media (TRIM))
• Christian, Lisa (University of Tennessee)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2016

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2016-10-10 – 2016-10-30

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Researchers working in Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Non-probability: Availability

University libraries and other research libraries were requested to forward the invitation to respond to the survey to researchers, doctoral students and other academic personnel at their organisation by e-mail and the intranet of the organisation. All libraries did not forward the invitation so the number of researchers receiving the invitation is not known. Additionally, invitations to respond were sent separately to approximately 1,000 researchers.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

To prevent identification of individuals, open-ended responses of the type "other, please specify" were removed from variables q3a and q4a charting workplace and job title. Specific mentions of the respondents' home organisations were also removed from open-ended responses to variable q51. Anonymisations done at FSD were marked with [square brackets].

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Tenopir, Carol (University of Tennessee) & Talja, Sanna (University of Tampere) & Late, Elina (University of Tampere) & Christian, Lisa (University of Tennessee): Scholarly Reading Practices Survey 2016 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2019-06-25). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3329

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

Late, E., Kumpulainen, S., Talja, S., Christian, L., & Tenopir, C. (2018). Suomalaisten tutkijoiden sosiaalisen median käyttö: sosiaalisen median merkitys työssä, tiedonhankinnassa ja tieteellisen tiedon jakamisessa. Informaatiotutkimus, 37(4). https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.77416

Tenopir, C., Talja, S., Late, E., Christian, L. (2019). Benefits and Outcomes of Library Collections on Scholarly Reading in Finland. Libri vol 69 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2018-0139

Julkaisut aineistosta

Late, E., Kumpulainen, S., Talja, S., Christian, L., & Tenopir, C. (2018). Suomalaisten tutkijoiden sosiaalisen median käyttö: sosiaalisen median merkitys työssä, tiedonhankinnassa ja tieteellisen tiedon jakamisessa. Informaatiotutkimus, 37(4). https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.77416

Tenopir, C., Talja, S., Late, E., Christian, L. (2019). Benefits and Outcomes of Library Collections on Scholarly Reading in Finland. Libri vol 69 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2018-0139

Late, E., Tenopir, C., Talja, S., & Christian, L. (2019). Reading practices in scholarly work: from articles and books to blogs. Journal of Documentation, 75(3), 478-499.

Late, E., Tenopir, C., Talja, S. and Christian, L. (2019). Reading practices in scholarly work: from articles and books to blogs. Journal of Documentation, Vol. 75 No. 3, pp. 478-499. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2018-0178

Tenopir, C., Late, E., Talja, S., & Christian, L. (2019). Changes in Scholarly Reading in Finland Over a Decade: Influences of E-Journals and Social Media. Libri, 69(3), 169-187. https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2018-0120

Tenopir, C., Talja, S., Late, E., & Christian, L. (2019). Benefits and outcomes of library collections on scholarly reading in Finland. Libri, 69(2), 153-168. https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2018-0139

Late, E., Kumpulainen, S., Talja, S., Christian, L., & Tenopir, C. (2018). Suomalaisten tutkijoiden sosiaalisen median käyttö: sosiaalisen median merkitys työssä, tiedonhankinnassa ja tieteellisen tiedon jakamisessa. Informaatiotutkimus, 37(4). https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.77416