Why Don't Humanities Faculty Publish Open Access?

Since 2007, UNC has officially been an Open Access campus, yet only 18% of faculty publications are Open Access (according to Scopus on December 9, 2018), and only 2% of faculty publications have been stored on UNC’s Open Access Repository, the CDR. The Scholarly Communications Office, part of the University Libraries since 2010, only just had, in January 2019, a link added to the University Libraries’ website home page to get to the department’s website. If services are to be provided for UNC faculty, and faculty are to accessibly utilize Open Access publication tools, faculty first need to be aware of its existence. This poster session describes the publishing-related information needs of humanities faculty and how the University Libraries’ Scholarly Communications department has the potential to target services and events to answer these needs