Assessing the Publishing Needs of Faculty Editors at FSU

This research is meant to assist FSU Libraries in better understanding the publishing needs of FSU faculty members serving on editorial boards for monographic series and journal publications. This data was collected via a 16-question survey instrument, distributed to a non-representative subset of FSU faculty in late 2017/early 2018 (n = 515), to gauge both specific publishing needs and general attitudes towards the current and future state of the scholarly communication field. Results show faculty editors' opinions on what services and functionalities participants most require in publishers and publishing platforms, their levels of satisfaction with current publishing services they participate in, and their knowledge of and willingness to engage in alternative publishing practices outside the scope of traditional commercial publishing models. This research was approved by FSU IRB under HSC No. 2017.22581.

本研究旨在帮助佛罗里达州立大学（Florida State University, FSU）图书馆更精准地掌握担任专著丛书与期刊出版物编委会职务的FSU教职员工的出版需求。本研究通过一套包含16个问题的调查问卷收集数据，于2017年末至2018年初发放给FSU的非代表性教职员工样本（样本量n=515），以评估其具体出版需求，以及对学术传播领域当前与未来态势的整体态度。调研结果涵盖了教职员工编委会成员对出版商与出版平台所需服务及功能的看法、其对参与当前出版服务的满意程度，以及他们对传统商业出版模式之外的替代出版实践的了解程度与参与意愿。本研究已通过FSU机构审查委员会（Institutional Review Board, IRB）审批，审批编号为HSC No. 2017.22581。