Responses from the 2025 survey "Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers" conducted by Scholastica and Maverick Publishing Specialists.

Description of the Data and file structure

These are responses from a Survey Monkey survey.

Dataset file: "Smaller_Publisher_Tech_Needs_2025_Survey_-_Data_cleaned_for_DRYAD.csv"

Unfortunately, for multi-part questions, Survey Monkey formats the data where the main question text/label is in a row, and then adds a second row with a column for each possible question text/label option. This results in blank header cells because Survey Monkey does an implicit colspan for multi-part questions.

DRYAD doesn't allow blank header cells in CSVs, so to reconcile DRYAD's validation with Survey Monkey's data structure, we made the following changes:

1. Filled in any empty header cells the most relevant option response
2. Added a row with the original headers, including spaces
3. Added "null" for blank cells within responses

Sharing/access Information

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Human subjects data

To avoid risk of indirect re-identification, data were de-identified by removing any explicitly identifying columns (e.g. contact information, IP address, role/occupation, country, etc.). The dataset was further de-identified by removing all open response questions that might have allowed respondents to include identifying information (e.g. "Other, please specify" open response questions).

Respondents were presented with a short message before starting the survey, which included a “Privacy Policy” section that stated, "The information you submit to the survey will be aggregated and anonymized."