Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria

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Main Authors: Sambe, Manasseh Tyungu, Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
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Published: 2015
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author Sambe, Manasseh Tyungu
Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi
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Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi
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Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi
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contents Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria Sambe, Manasseh Tyungu Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi Foreign Countries Research Libraries Access to Information Electronic Publishing Surveys Librarians Librarian Attitudes This study examines the kinds of open access scholarly publication or information resources accepted and adopted by federal university libraries in South East Nigeria. The purpose was to determine the factors that affect open access scholarly publication or information resources acceptance and adoption in university libraries. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Findings revealed that university libraries accept and adopt open access such as institutional repository, open journals, subject repository, e-books, personal websites among others with the use of computers, internet facilities and services among others. Inadequate internet facilities and services were identified as a major factor that affects open access acceptance and adoption in university libraries. The study concluded that open access scholarly communication or information resources are a vital tool of solving not only financial problems in libraries in general and university libraries in particular, but also enable university libraries to keep pace with information explosion or changing trends in libraries. Based on this, it recommends that university libraries should ensure that users are provided with adequate and quality open access information resources for there is a need for access and use of information materials in all formats, and acceptance and adoption of open access information resources could incite users to quickly access and utilize university library resources to a high extent.
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spellingShingle Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria
Sambe, Manasseh Tyungu
Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi
Foreign Countries
Research Libraries
Access to Information
Electronic Publishing
Surveys
Librarians
Librarian Attitudes
Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria Sambe, Manasseh Tyungu Raphael, Gabriel Okplogidi Foreign Countries Research Libraries Access to Information Electronic Publishing Surveys Librarians Librarian Attitudes This study examines the kinds of open access scholarly publication or information resources accepted and adopted by federal university libraries in South East Nigeria. The purpose was to determine the factors that affect open access scholarly publication or information resources acceptance and adoption in university libraries. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Findings revealed that university libraries accept and adopt open access such as institutional repository, open journals, subject repository, e-books, personal websites among others with the use of computers, internet facilities and services among others. Inadequate internet facilities and services were identified as a major factor that affects open access acceptance and adoption in university libraries. The study concluded that open access scholarly communication or information resources are a vital tool of solving not only financial problems in libraries in general and university libraries in particular, but also enable university libraries to keep pace with information explosion or changing trends in libraries. Based on this, it recommends that university libraries should ensure that users are provided with adequate and quality open access information resources for there is a need for access and use of information materials in all formats, and acceptance and adoption of open access information resources could incite users to quickly access and utilize university library resources to a high extent.
title Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria
topic Foreign Countries
Research Libraries
Access to Information
Electronic Publishing
Surveys
Librarians
Librarian Attitudes
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1083406