Factors influencing information-seeking behavior of academic scientists in the open access era

Abstract

This study examined the relationships between information-seeking behaviors (ISB) of Indonesian academic scientists and their individual and environmental factors in the open access era. A total of 335 scientists from Indonesia’s three reputable universities in the field of natural sciences, environmental sciences, engineering, health sciences, and agricultural sciences completed the online questionnaire. To interpret the correlation between scientists’ behaviors, several regression models in the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) were used. The study found that scientists’ ISB was influenced by various factors, such as demographic, psychological, role-related, and environmental factors. The academic position was found to be the dominant factor influencing ISB.

Keywords:

• Information-seeking behavior
• academic scientist
• open access
• Indonesia

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve the article. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions described here are the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors.

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Funding

This work was supported by The Indonesia Endowment Funds for Education (LPDP) under grant number 20194111014142.