Springer Compact Evaluation - Researcher attitudes questionnaire on Springer Compact, Open Access publishing, and Open Access financing

This questionnaire was used to evaluate researcher attitudes towards Open Access, Open Access publishing, Open Access financing, and in particular Open Access publishing with Springer Compact in Sweden.

Adiminstrative staff at Swedish institutions were asked to distribute the survey to authors at their institutions via e-mail. The survey was accessed online as a google survey and open for authors who published within SC between 1 January 2017 and June 2018. The survey closed 28 June 2018. Within this time frame 2071 articles were published. The response rate was 18%.