Attitudes of Publishers of International Egyptian literature towards Self-Archiving

The current study seeks to identify the attitudes of publishers of
international Egyptian literature towards self-archiving and determines to what
extend the Egyptian scholars awareness of publishers self-archiving policies. To
achieve the first objective, about 10,827 articles of Egyptian literature indexed in
Web of Science was extracted in order to determine the publishers of
international Egyptian literature. The literature covers the period 2005 – 2014. In
order to fulfill the second aim, a questioner was sent to authors of international
Egyptian literature (sample=3,400 authors) on 9 April 2015. The response rate
5% (n=165). The study findings showed that, 87% of publishers allowed selfarchiving
of pre-print copy, 74% of publishers allowed self-archiving to post-print
and 87% of publishers did not allow self-archiving for the publisher's
version/PDF. There are some conditions should be followed by authors to selfarchive
their articles, such as: Authors should archive their articles on author's
personal website or institutional repository only, published source must be
acknowledged and must link to publisher version or journal home page.
The study showed that, 56% of the researchers have self-archived their
articles, while 44% of researchers have not yet self-archived their articles
because they belief that publishers policies do not allow it. The study also
showed that, 64% of the researchers lack awareness of self-archiving options
offered by publishers. 62% of researchers who have archived their articles,
admitted that, they are committed to the publisher's policies of self-archiving, but
their practices proved the opposite when 96% of them indicated that they have
self-archived the publisher PDF version. Based on study findings, the researcher
provided several recommendations to the stakeholders in Egyptian universities,
libraries and digital repositories