Abstract:

Taking the attitudebehavior theories and information technology adoption theories as the research base, this paper proposed the influencing factor model on researchers’ adoption of selfarchiving as information resource provider, made an empirical study and used the SPSS and AMOS software to implement reliability analysis, validity analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, model verification and modification. The results showed that research belief, perceived cost, perceived risk, perceived usefulness, social influence and facilitating condition had significant effects on the adoption behavior intention.

Key words: Open access, Self-archiving, Researcher, Adoption behavior, Influencing factor