TY - GEN ID - cogprints4123 UR - http://cogprints.org/4123/ A1 - Swan, Alma A1 - Brown, Sheridan Y1 - 2004/// N2 - Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of "self-archiving" wasless. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not published in an open access journal attributed that to unfamiliarity with such journals. Forty per cent of authors have self-archived their traditional journal articles and almost twice as many say they would do so if required to. KW - Author Survey KW - Open Access KW - Open Access Journals KW - Self-Archiving KW - Policy TI - Authors and open access publishing SP - 219 AV - public EP - 224 ER -