A framework for studying motivations for self-archiving on academic social network sites

Lee, Jongwook; Oh, Sanghee; Dong, Hang; Wang, Fang; Burnett, Gary

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Title

A framework for studying motivations for self-archiving on academic social network sites

Author(s)

• Lee, Jongwook
• Oh, Sanghee
• Dong, Hang
• Wang, Fang
• Burnett, Gary

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Self-archiving
• Academic social network sites
• Motivation
• ResearchGate

Abstract

Sharing academic papers on academic social network sites (ASNSs) is a form of self-archiving. Although self-archiving has been discussed at length in the context of open access repositories, few researchers have examined self-archiving in the context of social media. To address this dearth of research, we proposed a motivation framework that is applicable to investigate users’ self-archiving motivations in ASNSs. The framework proposed in this study consisted of eighteen factors covering four dimensions: (1) personal, (2) social, (3) professional, and (4) constraining/enabling factors. In our future studies, we will test our framework and examine users’ motivations in self-archiving their work in one of the most popular ASNSs, ResearchGate (RG). Specifically, RG users' demographic and disciplinary characteristics will be related to their motivational factors.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

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text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Jongwook Lee, Sanghee Oh, Hang Don, Fang Wang, and Gary Burnett

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