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Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective

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Author(s) / Creator(s)

Köster, Massimo
Moors, Agnes
De Houwer, Jan
Ross-Hellauer, Tony
Van Nieuwerburgh, Inge
Verbruggen, Frederick

Abstract / Description

Despite growing awareness of the benefits of large-scale open access publishing, individual researchers seem reluctant to adopt this behavior, thereby slowing down the evolution towards a new scientific culture. We apply the goal-directed framework of Moors and colleagues (Moors, 2019; Moors, Boddez, & De Houwer, 2017) to shed light on this type of behavioral reluctance and to organize and suggest possible interventions. This framework explains behavior as the result of a cycle of events starting with the detection of a discrepancy between a goal and a status quo and the selection of behavior to reduce this discrepancy. We list various factors that may hinder this cycle and thus contribute to behavioral reluctance. After that, we highlight potential remedies to address each of the identified barriers. We thereby hope to point out new ways to think about behavioral reluctances in general, and in relation to open access publishing in particular.

Keyword(s)

behavioral reluctance open access publishing goal-directed

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Date of first publication

2020-12-04

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PsychArchives

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Köster, M., Moors, A., De Houwer, J., Ross-Hellauer, T., Van Nieuwerburgh, I., & Verbruggen, F. (2020). Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective. PsychArchives. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4376
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    2020-12-04
    The updated version includes a broader consideration of the existing literature on the topic of open access publishing as well as minor corrections to the accompanying figures.
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    2020-09-30
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Köster, Massimo
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Moors, Agnes
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    De Houwer, Jan
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Ross-Hellauer, Tony
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Van Nieuwerburgh, Inge
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Verbruggen, Frederick
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2020-12-04T09:22:31Z
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    2020-09-30T10:02:03Z
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    2020-12-04T09:22:31Z
  • Date of first publication
    2020-12-04
  • Abstract / Description
    Despite growing awareness of the benefits of large-scale open access publishing, individual researchers seem reluctant to adopt this behavior, thereby slowing down the evolution towards a new scientific culture. We apply the goal-directed framework of Moors and colleagues (Moors, 2019; Moors, Boddez, & De Houwer, 2017) to shed light on this type of behavioral reluctance and to organize and suggest possible interventions. This framework explains behavior as the result of a cycle of events starting with the detection of a discrepancy between a goal and a status quo and the selection of behavior to reduce this discrepancy. We list various factors that may hinder this cycle and thus contribute to behavioral reluctance. After that, we highlight potential remedies to address each of the identified barriers. We thereby hope to point out new ways to think about behavioral reluctances in general, and in relation to open access publishing in particular.
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    other
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    notReviewed
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  • Sponsorship
    Preparation of this article was supported by Research Program G073317N of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and Grant C14/17/047 of the Research Fund of KU Leuven. Jan De Houwer is supported by Ghent University grant BOF16/MET_V/002. Frederick Verbruggen is supported by an ERC Consolidator grant (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 769595).
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  • Citation
    Köster, M., Moors, A., De Houwer, J., Ross-Hellauer, T., Van Nieuwerburgh, I., & Verbruggen, F. (2020). Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective. PsychArchives. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4376
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/3805.2
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4376
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
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  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649915
  • Keyword(s)
    behavioral reluctance
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  • Keyword(s)
    open access publishing
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  • Keyword(s)
    goal-directed
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective
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  • DRO type
    preprint
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  • Leibniz subject classification
    Psychologie
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  • Visible tag(s)
    behavioral reluctance
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  • Visible tag(s)
    open access publishing
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  • Visible tag(s)
    goal-directed
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