Academic Staff Perceptions of Institutional Repository and Academic Staff Productivity in South-West Universities, Nigeria
Author(s): Adebowale Tayewo Olayinka, Onyenania George Ogheneruemu & Asunmo Abimbola Oluwayemisi
Abstract – Institutional Repository (IR) is changing the face of information transmission around the world. It has added a new dimension to information development, storage, access, and dissemination by allowing wider and open access to material often provided by academic peers in order to boost productivity. In affluent countries around the world, IR support for open access programs is on the rise, with a corresponding influence on academic staff productivity. As a result, this article investigates academic staff perceptions of institutional repositories as well as academic productivity in universities in Nigeria's South-West. In this study, a survey research design was used. All 5,639 academic employees in the eight South-West universities with IRs are included in the study. Slovin's sampling formula was used to determine sample size for the investigation, which resulted in a sample size of 373. Random sampling procedures were used in the study. To answer the study research questions, descriptive statistics (simple percentage and mean/standard deviation) were used in SPSS version 20.0 to analyze the study collected data via questionnaire and Google form online. The study was able to come to the following significant conclusions as a result of this process: academic staff productivity is low, as is their rate/level of work deposit in IR; yet, their level or degree of usage of materials in IR, as well as their perceived benefits of IR use, is high. As a result, the study suggests that management look for ways to encourage academic staff to deposit work in IRs in order to promote more utilization and improve their academic productivity and exposure globally.
Keywords – Institutional Repository, Productivity, Academic Staff, South-West, Nigeria.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.7.4.2021.1468
Cite This Article As: Olayinka,A.T., Ogheneruemu, O.G. & Oluwayemisi, A. A. (2021). Academic Staff Perceptions of Institutional Repository and Academic Staff Productivity in South-West Universities, Nigeria. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 7(4) 179-190. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1468 Page: 179-190 Publication Date: 26 November 2021