LECTURERS’ PERCEPTION OF INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT AND USE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated lecturer’s perception of intellectual output and use of Institutional Repositories in universities in South-South, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The population of the study was 3558 lecturers in 3 Federal Universities of the South-South, Region of Nigeria. Simple Random Sampling technique was used to select 10% of the population given, a sample size of 356 lecturers in the universities. Questionnaire was the instrument used to collect data from the respondents. Frequency counts was used to analyze the demographic information of the respondents, statistical mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were used to answer the research questions and hypothesis respectively. The study found out that the kind of intellectual output lecturers deposit in their institutional Repositories include book chapter, post published research article, full book, conference paper, statistical reports, papers in support of grant application and working paper. The study reaffirmed that lecturers’ perception of depositing their intellectual output in Institutional Repositories is high. The study revealed that the extent of use of institutional repositories by lecturers is high. Consequently regular programmes such as training should be organized to encourage lecturers and other researchers within the academic community to deposit their intellectual output for publication in their repositeries to boost their visibility and profile as researchers. Also, policies should be formulated by university management to encourage lecturers and other researchers to deposit their intellectual output in their repositories inorder to boost their ranking globally among others.