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

Frontiers in Psychology

Jan De Houwer¹  Frederick Verbruggen²  Inge Van Nieuwerburgh³  Tony Ross-Hellauer⁴  Massimo Köster⁵  Agnes Moors⁵ 

[1] Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Ghent University Library, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Open and Reproducible Research Group, Graz University of Technology and Know-Center GmbH, Graz, Austria;Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;

关键词: open access publishing;    behavioral reluctance;    goal-directed;    meta-research;    intervention;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649915

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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 toward a new scientific culture. We outline and apply a goal-directed framework of behavior causation to shed light on this type of behavioral reluctance and to organize and suggest possible intervention strategies. The 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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY