<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">One has to use a bit of "salt" with these "surveys".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The publishing group Taylor and Francis has conducted a large survey amongst its authorship in ten geographic regions (Africa, Australasia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Northern and Central Europe, South Asia, South East Asia, Southern Europe) to discover their attitudes to Open Access (OA).  14,700 authors responded."</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Would be nice to see IFLA or a similarly neutral party, launch an open unbiased survey.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Those results would be very interesting indeed.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Does anybody know of such a survey?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">hg</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2013 14:21, Heila Pienaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heila.Pienaar@up.ac.za" target="_blank">Heila.Pienaar@up.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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