The green and gold of journal publication: Australian property researchers’ perspective on open access publication

The pressure on property academics to published research papers is ever increasing with an emphasis on selected 'high profile' journals. The need to demonstrate the impact of property research through the level of citation and other output metrics is growing. At the same time many governments around the world are requiring funded research reports to be openly accessible resulting in a rapid growth of open access journals and a response by many established journals to offer open access publication. This paper reports on a survey of Australian property academics to assess their knowledge level of open access publication resources and the impact such resources may have on research output measures. The results point to a need for greater understanding of the open access environment and issues associated with copyright in published papers.