Recommended citation for the data: Leebaw, Danya; Logsdon, Alexis (2018). Academic Librarians and Academic Freedom Survey Data. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, . ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Title of Dataset: Academic Librarians and Academic Freedom Survey Data 2. Author Information Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Danya Leebaw Institution: University of Minnesota Libraries Email: leeba005@umn.edu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9051-6419 Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Alexis Logsdon Email: Alexis.logsdon@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3406-5577 3. Date published: 2021-08-13 4. Date of data collection: 2018-10-31 to 2018-11-26 5. Overview of the data (abstract): The data is a spreadsheet downloaded from survey responses in Qualtrics. The authors surveyed academic librarians about their attitudes toward and experiences with academic freedom in their workplaces. Of the nearly 750 people who began the survey, just under 600 qualified for the survey as current academic library employees who gave their consent to the survey. The authors have only included the survey data for this subset of respondents. Also included is a set of comments made in an optional free-text field at the end of the survey. They are presented separate from their authors’ survey responses to ensure anonymity. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0 1.0 Universal, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: Logsdon, Alexis, and Danya Leebaw. “Educating from the Margins: Academic Librarians and Academic Freedom.” Journal of Academic Freedom, Fall 2021. Leebaw, Danya and Logsdon, Alexis. “Power and Status (and Lack Thereof) in Academe: Academic Freedom and Academic Librarians.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, September 16, 2020. http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/power-and-status-and-lack-thereof-in-academe/. Leebaw, Danya, and Alexis Logsdon. “The Cost of Speaking Out:” ACRL 2019 Proceedings, March 12, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/203282. 3. Was data derived from another source? No If yes, list source(s): 4. DRUM Terms of Use: By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. https://conservancy.umn.edu/pages/drum/policies/#terms-of-use --------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW --------------------- 1. File List A. Filename: Codebook_LibAF.pdf Short description: Codebook for survey questions Size: 253Kb B. Filename: Codebook_LibAF.txt Short description: Plain text version of the codebook for survey questions. Size: 56Kb C. Filename: Survey_Data_LibAF.csv Short description: .csv file of survey responses Size: 444Kb D. Filename: Open_Text_Responses_LibAF.txt Short description: Plain text file containing comments made by survey respondents in a free text field (Q26). Size: 53Kb E. Filename: Survey_Questions_LibAF.txt Short description: Plain text file containing the survey questions Size: 12Kb F. Filename: readme.txt Short description: Readme file Size: 4Kb -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Qualtrics survey, distributed to list serves and via social media. 2. Methods for processing the data: Qualtrics data was downloaded as a .csv file, then stripped of any identifying data: IP, GIS coordinates, email addresses, free-text social identity responses, and open text field comments. Comments from Q26 are presented in a separate txt file separate from their corresponding survey entries to enhance anonymity. On questions where respondents could select all that apply, the responses are separated by pipes(|) within a single cell in the csv.