Scholarly Reading Practices Survey 2016

The study examined Finnish researchers' use of different printed and electronic publications in their work, such as scientific journals, articles, books, reports, and social media. The study is part of Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King's survey series launched in 1977 following the reading practices of researchers in different countries and scientific fields. Finnish data have also been collected in 2006 but this dataset has not been archived at the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. The 2016 project was partly funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The survey charted researchers' common reading practices as well as publishing of different types of scientific articles and other publications. The way that the respondents' work time was distributed between different types of tasks was charted as well as how many publications of different types they had authored within the previous two years. It was also examined how researchers searched for information, published scientific work, and cited the work of others. Questions also covered how much time the respondents spent on reading articles, how many scientific articles and other types of publications they had read within the previous 30 days, how recent the publications that they read were, reasons for reading them, what language they were in, how they found the publications and received access, where they read the publications, which scientific field the publications represented, and how useful they considered different publication formats for their work. The significance of social media was charted with questions regarding, for instance, how important different services and tools were for their work (e.g. blogs, cloud services, institutional repositories, academic online communities, reference management software). The respondents were also asked about how important different features of electronic publications were (e.g. compatibility and readability on different devices, possibility to share publications, advanced navigation features, global language support, possibility to embed audio into publications). Background variables included scientific field, job title, age, and type of workplace.

本研究探究了芬兰研究人员在工作过程中对各类印刷和电子出版物，如科学期刊、论文、书籍、报告以及社交媒体的运用情况。该研究构成了Carol Tenopir和Donald W. King自1977年起启动的调查研究系列的一部分，旨在追踪不同国家及科学领域研究人员之阅读习惯。2006年亦收集了芬兰相关数据，但该数据集尚未存档于芬兰社会科学数据档案馆。2016年的项目部分由芬兰文化基金会资助。调查不仅描绘了研究人员共同的阅读习惯，以及不同类型科学文章和其他出版物的发表情况，还详细记录了受访者工作时间内不同类型任务的分配，以及他们在过去两年内所撰写的不同类型出版物数量。研究还审视了研究人员获取信息、发表科学作品以及引用他人作品的方式。调查问题还包括受访者用于阅读文章的时间、过去30天内阅读的科学文章和其他类型出版物的数量、所阅读出版物的时效性、阅读原因、语言种类、获取出版物及访问权限的方式、阅读地点、出版物所代表的科学领域，以及不同出版物格式对工作的有用性。通过一系列问题，调查还探讨了社交媒体的重要性，例如不同服务与工具（如博客、云服务、机构仓储库、学术在线社区、参考文献管理软件）对工作的重要性。受访者还被问及电子出版物不同特性的重要性，例如在不同设备上的兼容性和可读性、分享出版物的可能性、高级导航功能、全球语言支持以及将音频嵌入出版物的可能性。背景变量包括科学领域、职称、年龄和职场类型。