During the past few years, academic research and publishing has faced many disruptions and challenges including predatory publishing, transparency in metrics, the push for open access, and now recently, the greater prevalence of Artificial Intelligence. Now in its second year, the
IGI Global Annual Academic Publishing Trends & Open Access Survey 2024 seeks to create a realistic outlook on problems faced by the academic community and their potential solutions.
In less than five minutes, researchers, librarians, and academicians every where can lend their voices to initiate change within academic research and publishing by participating in this survey. The survey takes about three to five minutes to complete.
The survey is designed to serve as a vessel for the global academic community to better understand the current challenges and opportunities facing researchers and their institutions. It is expected that the answers and opinions voiced via the survey will reflect upon the current state of research and publishing, providing future directions for the research community, institutions, and the academic publishing industry. Participants of the survey will have the ability to share their views on the impacts of:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Open Access
- Peer Review Processes
- Metrics
- General Ethics
- Current and Forthcoming Research Trends
“It is our intention that this survey will provide us with invaluable insights into the challenges that researchers and librarians are currently facing, as well as the publishing opportunities that they would like to be offered,” states Melissa Wagner, Vice President of Editorial at IGI Global. “In better understanding their thoughts on the trends and controversies currently disrupting the industry, we will be able to do our part to ensure that we are moving in a direction that can better support them and their research.”
The survey will officially close
June 30, 2024 (updated). Respondents of the survey will remain anonymous, and a summary of the findings will be shared and made freely accessible to all. To ensure receipt of the summary of the survey results, please feel free to sign up for IGI Global’s Newsletter
here.
Questions involving participation in the survey can be directed to Melissa Wagner, Vice President of Editorial at
mwagner@igi-global.com.
About IGI Global – Publishing Tomorrow’s Research Today
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, IGI Global is a leading medium-sized independent international academic publisher of cutting-edge, high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly reference publications in the three major academic subject areas of
Business & Management,
Scientific, Technical, & Medical (STM), and
Education. With a commitment to facilitating the discovery of pioneering scientific research, this publishing house has empowered over 200,000+ expert researchers from leading institutions globally to bring advanced reference books and scholarly journals to the research community. IGI Global’s Open Access Journal Program includes nearly 200+ active fully open access journals and at present, IGI Global is one of the largest 100% open access journal publishers in the world. Through traditional and open access publishing workflows, IGI Global’s unique, swift, and agile proprietary processes (books release in roughly 6-9 months from start to finish) ensures that
tomorrow’s research is published today.
Learn more about IGI Global
here.
This article was originally published on February 29, 2024, and has been updated to extend the deadline for survey submissions.