roughly ten years ago with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Open Access Institute, 2001), however as

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present and inform about the current status of open access scientific publications in academia in general, as well as summarize the current policies and uses of Open Access Journals (OAJ) at Stockholm University specifically. In particular, the use of OAJ will be studied at the Department of Computer and System Sciences (abbreviated as DSV in Swedish). The primary research question is to ascertain researchers ’ current use, knowledge of, and attitudes towards OAJ at DSV. The method to be used will be an online questionnaire. The results showed that in general OAJ is used as intended by Stockholm University, but there were some significant discrepancies namely that a few researchers responded that they do not upload bibliographic information of their research to the institutional repository (DiVA) at all and 34 % of the respondents were unaware of prevailing policies regarding Open Access and 18 % were unaware of the concept of Open Access at all. However, the general attitudes towards Open Access were overwhelmingly positive