Data for: Disciplinary, Institutional, and Individual Factors Affecting Researchers’ Depositing Articles in Institutional Repository: An Empirical Analysis

The online survey was initially conducted along with another study focusing on researchers’ article sharing through scholarly social media, from late November, 2016 to mid-February, 2017. A total of 2,532 potential survey participants were asked whether they are aware of IRs and/or scholarly social media (i.e., ResearchGate), and those who were aware of IRs in their academic institutions were led to take the survey for this research. A total of 122 initial responses were received for this research (compared to 303 initial responses for the other survey), and only 109 out of 122 initial responses were considered valid because participants completed more than 80% of the survey questionnaire and responded to the items inquiring about article depositing behaviors through IRs as an outcome variable.

In order to secure more responses for this research, we made the same online survey available from mid-October to late December, 2017. A total of 927 potential survey participants were invited to take the IR survey; rather than excluding anyone who was unaware of IRs like at the administration of the survey the first time, we provided some explanations about IRs at the beginning of the survey during the second administration of this survey. As a result, all the potential participants were able to take the IR survey. We received a total of 135 partial and full responses from the 2nd time the survey was administered, but only 112 responses were found to be valid for data analysis (i.e., more than 80% of questions including the question about article depositing behavior were answered). From administering the survey on two separate occasions, we received a total of 221 valid responses (109 responses from the 1st time the survey was administered and 112 responses from the 2nd time the survey was administered), and those 221 responses were used for final data analysis.

本次在线调查最初于2016年11月下旬至2017年2月中旬期间，与其他一项专注于研究人员通过学术社交媒体进行文章分享的研究同步进行。共邀请2,532名潜在的受访者，询问他们是否了解机构知识库（IRs）以及学术社交媒体（例如ResearchGate），对于了解所在学术机构中IRs的受访者，则引导他们参与本次研究调查。本次研究共收到122份初始回复（与其他调查的303份初始回复相比），但由于参与者完成超过80%的调查问卷并就通过IRs进行文献存档的行为作为结果变量进行回答，因此只有109份初始回复被视为有效。为了收集更多的研究回复，我们将同一在线调查从2017年10月中旬延长至12月下旬。共邀请927名潜在的受访者参与IR调查；与首次调查时排除不了解IRs的人不同，我们在第二次调查的开始部分提供了关于IRs的一些解释。因此，所有潜在参与者均能参与IR调查。第二次进行调查时，我们共收到135份部分和完整回复，但只有112份回复被认定为数据分析的有效回复（即回答了包括关于通过IRs进行文献存档行为的问题在内的超过80%的问题）。通过两次分别进行调查，我们共收到221份有效回复（第一次调查的109份回复和第二次调查的112份回复），这221份回复被用于最终的数据分析。