[Scholarly Communication] 

An independent survey reports that 29 percent of senior authors questioned say that they have published in an open access journal. This is up 18 percentage points compared to a similar question asked in a 2004 study carried out by the same researchers -- a two-and-a-half-fold increase in just twelve months.

"New Journal Publishing Models: An International Survey of Senior Researchers" was produced by CIBER, an independent publishing think tank based at City University in London. The study, published in September 2005, is based on a survey of 5513 authors, "typically principal investigators or research group leaders," who had published in an ISI-indexed journal during 2004. The report found that the research community is now much more aware of the open access issue.

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