Faculty Members Awareness and Attitude towards the Use of Institutional Repositories (IRs) in Federal Universities in South South, Nigeria

Authors

  • Daniel O Akparobore Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
  • Ademola F Omosekejimi University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, Delta State

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Faculty Members, Awareness, Attitude, Institutional Repositories, Federal Universities, South South

Abstract

This study examines faculty members’ awareness and attitude towards the use of Institutional  Repositories (IRs) in federal universities in South South, Nigeria. The total population for this study  comprises of 572 lecturers who are registered library users in seven federal universities in South  South, Nigeria. The total enumeration sampling technique was used because of the manageable size  of population. Questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. Findings from this study revealed that the level of awareness of institutional repository among faculty members in federal  universities in South South, Nigeria is high, also the study found that the attitude of faculty  members towards the use of institutional repositories in federal universities in South South, Nigeria  is positive., that faculty members in federal universities in South South, Nigeria use IR for are:  accessing e-journal articles for teaching and research; accessing e-book collection for teaching and  research; accessing scholarly works to prepare lecture notes; accessing electronic theses and  dissertations for teaching and research; accessing materials for seminar presentations; depositing  scholarly works for safekeeping; developing collaborative workspace/information sharing space,  increasing their visibility as authors and researchers and to participate in the scholarly  communication process among others. The following were suggested to improve on the adoption of  Institutional Repositories by faculty members: Contributing scholarly works to the University's IR  by faculty members should be made an institutional mandate by Federal university management in  Nigeria; University library should be organizing orientation programmes, seminars and workshops  regularly so as to create in faculty members the awareness of the usefulness and benefits of  institutional repositories among others. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Abdelrahman, O. H. (2017). Use of the university of Khartoum institutional repository by graduate students. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology. 37(2), 104-108. 2. Abrizah, A. (2010). Populating IR: Faculty’s contribution and roles of librarians. BACA: 31(1), 27-51. Retrieved from http://www.pdii.lipi.go.id/baca/index.php/baca/article/view/97

Ammarukleart, S. (2017). Factors affecting faculty acceptance and use of institutional repositories in Thailand; Texas: University of Texas. Retrieved from

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984189/m2/1/high_res_d/AMMARUKL EART-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf

Ampong, K.O. (2016). The uptake of institutional repository: the case of University of Ghana: Ghana; University of Ghana. Retrieved from

http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/bitstream/handle/123456789/8856/The%20Uptake%20of%20In stitutional%20Reporsitory%20The%20case%20of%20University%20of%20Ghana2016.pdf?seq uence=1

Andrew, T. (2018). Awareness and attitudes of faculty members towards developing institutional repository in Federal University, Kashere Gombe State Nigeria. Information and Knowledge Management. 8(2), 1-7.

Anenene E. A., Alegbeleye, G. B., & Oyewole, O. (2017). Factors contributing to the adoption of institutional repositories in universities in South-West Nigeria: Perspective of library staff. Library philosophy and practice (e-journal). 1508

Http://digitalcommons.unl.odu/libphilpri/1508.

Bamigbola, A. A. (2014). Surveying attitude and use of institutional repositories (IRs) by faculty in Agriculture Disciplines: A case study. Doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.145.

Bamigbola, A. A., & Adetimirin, A. E. (2017). Evaluating use of institutional repositories by lectures in Nigerian universities. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management. 8(3), 83-102. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/iiJikm.v8i3.8

Casey, A. M. (2012). Do tenure matter?: Factors influencing faculty contributions to institutional repositories. Retrieved from: https://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss1/8.

Christian, G. E. (2008). Issues and challenges to the development of open access institutional repositories in academic and research institutions in Nigeria. International Research and Development Centre (IDRC) Ottawa, Canada. Retrieved from

http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/36986/1/127792.pdf

Cullen, R. & Chawner, B. (2010). Institutional repositories: assessing their value to the academic community. Performance Measurement and Metrics. 11(2), 131 – 147 Retrieved from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1467-

&volume=11&issue=2&articleid=1871182&show=html

Dhanavarldan S. & Tamizhcholvan M. (2013). A critical study on the attitudes and awareness of institutional repositories and open access publishing. Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice. 1(4), 67-75 Retrieved from http://dx.doi.orgho.1633/jisTap2013.1.4.5

Dulle, F.W. (2010). An analysis of open access scholarly communication in Tanzania public universities (doctoral thesis). Johannesburg: University of South Africa.

Dutta, G. & Paul, D. (2014). Awareness on institutional repositories: Related issues by faculty of university of Calcutta. Journal of Library and Information Technology, 34, 293-297. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10:14429/djut34.5138.

Ezema, I. J. (2013). Local contents and the development of open access institutional repositories in Nigeria University libraries. Library Review. 60(6). Retrieved from D01: 10.1108/002/4253111147198.

Fasae, J. K., Larnyoh, W., ESew, M., Alanyo, B., & Holmper, M. (2017). Institutional repositories and heritage materials in selected institutions within three African countries. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/1603

Jain, P., Bentley, G. & Oladiran, M. (2009). The role of institutional repository in digital scholarly communication. Gaborone: University.

Kathewera, H. F. (2016). The role of an institutional repository in the creation and use of local content by staff and students at Lilongwe University Of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi. Retrieved from

http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/779/Herbert2.pdf?sequence=1 &isAllowed=y

Kim J. (2010). Motivation of faculty self achieving the institutional repositories. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 37(3), 246-254. Retrieved from

http://www.dxdoi.org/10:1016/J.acalib.2011.02.017.

Lwoga, E.T. & Questier, F. (2014). Faculty adoption and usage behaviour of open access scholarly in health sciences Universities, New Library World, 115(3/4), 116–139. Retrieved from http://www.dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/44/ETL_FQ_new% 20library%20world_archiving.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Lynch C.A. (2003) Institutional repositories essential infrastructure for scholarship in digital age. ARL Bi Monthly Report. 226, 1-7. Retrieved from

http://www.arl.org/nowsltr/226/ir.html.

Nunda, M. I., & Elia, E. F. (2019). Institutional repositories adoption and use in selected Tanzanian higher learning institutions.

Nwakaego, F.O. (2017). Factors influencing institutional repositories in some universities in Nigeria. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research. 35(2), 147-156. 24. Nyambi, E. & Maynard, E. (2012). An investigation of institutional repositories in state university in Zimbabwe. Information Development, 28(1), 55 – 67.

Oguz, F., & Assefa, S. (2014). Faculty members' perceptions towards institutional repository at a medium-sized university: Application of a binary logistic regression model. Library Review. 63. 189-202.

Okumu, O. D. (2015). Adoption of institutional repositories in dissemination of Scholarly information in universities in Kenya with Reference to United States International University Africa. Being a research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Llibrary and Information Science, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nairobi. Retrieved from

http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/93088/Ogenga_Adoption%20of %20institutional%20repositories.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.

Omeluzor, S. U. (2014) Institutional repositories (IR) awareness and willingness of faculty staff to deposit research work. A study of faculty staff in selected public and private universities in Nigeria. Open Access Library Journal. 1. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/104236/oalib.1101139.

Prabhakar, S. V. R., & Manjula-Rani, S.V. (2017). Benefits and perspectives of institutional repositories in academic libraries. Scholarly Research Journal for Humanity Science & English Language. Retrieved from http://oaji.net/articles/2017/1201-1529139900.pdf

Pelizzari, E. (2004). Academic authors and open archives: A survey in the social science field. Libri. 54. 10.1515/LIBR.2004.113.

Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations, 5th edition, New York, Free Press. 31. Saini, O.P. (2018). The emergence of institutional repositories: A conceptual understanding key issues through review of literature. Library Philosophy and Practice, 3(3), 1-19. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/1774/

Sambhu, N. H., & Suvra, C. (2017). Users attitudes towards institutional repository in Jadavpur University: A critical study. Retrieved from http://aessueb.com/journal.detail.php?id=5012. 33. Sankar, P., & Kavitha, E. S. (2017). Challenges in contributing in institutional repository system: A study. International Referenced Journal of Review and Research. 5(6).

Saulus, N.R., Mutula, S. & Dlamin, N. (2017). Technology acceptance factors in the use of institutional repositories: the case of the University of Swaziland and (UNISWA)’s Faculty of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, Mbabane: University of Swaziland. Retrieved from https://www.scecsal.org/publications/papers2018/038_saulus_2018.pdf

Tapfuma, M. M. (2016). Utilization of open access institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s Public Universities. University of KwaZulu, Natal.

Tmava, A. M., & Miksa, S. D. (2017). Factors influencing attitudes towards open access institutional repositories; 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Washington, DC, VA Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 201. Retrieved from

https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401061

Yang, Z. Y., & Li, Y. (2015). University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 3(1):eP1210. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1210

Downloads

Published

2020-11-12

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 2 (2020): Library Progress (International) (Jul-Dec) 2020

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Faculty Members Awareness and Attitude towards the Use of Institutional Repositories (IRs) in Federal Universities in South South, Nigeria . (2020). Library Progress (International), 40(2), 154–165. https://doi.org/10.48165/