Determinants of Postgraduates’ Use of Electronic Information Resources in Federal Universities in Southern Nigeria

Azonobi, I. N.; Uwaifo, Stephen Osahon; Tella, Adeyinka

doi:10.1080/10572317.2020.1783629

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“…In a bid to carry out their research and to satisfy their information needs, postgraduate students make use of the library and its resources, whether in a book or electronic form (Azonobi et al , 2020; Kumar and Kumar, 2021). When these students approach the library or access its resources from an offsite internet-enabled location, they expect that librarians, with their expertise and skill, should be able to render assistance, enabling them to retrieve materials with maximum satisfaction in as short a time as possible (Mugo and Mathu, 2021).…”

Section: Role Of Libraries and Librarians In Curbing Inappropriate Cy...mentioning

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Libraries and librarians’ roles in ensuring cyberethical behaviour

Dunmade

Tella

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the role of libraries and librarians in promoting appropriate cyberethical behaviour among postgraduate students in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Using content analysis and a review of relevant literature, this study examines the challenges that librarians face in enforcing cyberethics and highlights the strategies that libraries can adopt to promote responsible online behaviour. Findings This paper identifies the lack of awareness among postgraduate students regarding cybersecurity risks and the need for training and resources for librarians as key challenges in promoting cyberethics. Originality/value This study recommends that libraries provide access to training resources and develop policies and guidelines to promote cyberethics among postgraduate students. Overall, this paper argues that libraries and librarians can play a critical role in promoting responsible online behaviour and ensuring the safety and security of postgraduate students in Nigeria.

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Section: Role Of Libraries and Librarians In Curbing Inappropriate Cy...mentioning

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Libraries and librarians’ roles in ensuring cyberethical behaviour

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2023

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“…The emergence of new technological advancements caused the major shift of educational materials in traditional libraries or learning commons from printed content to electronic information resources while maintaining the facility's efficiency of information management [122]. These tools and resources (e.g., Google classroom, electronic library, Scopus (Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Turnitin (Advance Publications, Oakland, California, United States)) have increasingly become invaluable assets in academic institutions as effective media for research and teaching [123,124]. They also enhance academic institutions' research activities [125,126] and allow convenient access to a wide range of accurate and timely information on various research subjects [124].…”

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“…These tools and resources (e.g., Google classroom, electronic library, Scopus (Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Turnitin (Advance Publications, Oakland, California, United States)) have increasingly become invaluable assets in academic institutions as effective media for research and teaching [123,124]. They also enhance academic institutions' research activities [125,126] and allow convenient access to a wide range of accurate and timely information on various research subjects [124]. A study conducted by Barjack [127] proved the positive relationship between technology use and RP.…”

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Research Productivity for Augmenting the Innovation Potential of Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach and MICMAC Analysis

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Evangelista

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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Current literature merely identifies the driving factors of research productivity in higher education institutions without directly examining their interrelationships that would offer some fundamental insights into the nature of these factors. Thus, this work intends to identify those driving factors and establish their structural relationships to determine those factors with crucial roles in advancing research productivity. Due to the subjectivity of the identified driving factors and the notion that the evaluation of their relationships reflects an expert judgment, an interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach and the Matrice d’impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment (MICMAC) analysis were adopted. Results show that institutional support, reward system, research funding, mentoring, and electronic information resources are the most crucial factors influencing research productivity. When addressed, these driving factors would motivate other driving factors, contributing to higher research productivity. In particular, these findings encourage higher education institutions to (1) efficiently allocate research funds and design mentoring programs, (2) offer efficient research incentive schemes, (3) develop initiatives that would support promising research proposals beneficial to the institution, and (4) collaborate with external organizations to grant funding for research proposals. These results contribute significantly to the literature as it provides meaningful insights that aid decision-makers in higher education institutions in resource allocation decisions, policy-making, and the design of efficient initiatives for augmenting their innovation potential.

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“…Moreover, due to lack of technology, digital library services are not available in public HEIs in the mjaority of developing countries. Therefore, students, faculty members and research scholars from urban and rural areas remain disadvantegoeus to the digital libraries [ 68 , 69 ]. Research showed multiple factors of inaccessibility to digital services and facilities in developing countries [ 48 , 70 , 71 ].…”

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Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

Shoaib

Ali

Anwar

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Journal of Information Science

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This article attempts to evaluate the library services and facilities during the pandemic situations in Pakistan. This study is fashioned in positivistic tradition of quantitative research design, and a cross-sectional research method was employed. The objective of the study was to examine the library services available to students and faculty members in two public sector academic libraries in Pakistan. A complete list of students and faculty members was collected from the concerned offices along with their WhatsApp numbers and email address. A total of 1736 students and faculty members sampled through proportionate random sampling technique and filled the questionnaire out of 7835. The inclusion criteria to participate was based on enrolled students of public and private sector university, passed at least one semester of BS (4 years) and MA/MSc (2 years) programme in Pakistan, and faculty members using library resources. A structured questionnaire to measure the response of library patrons and consisted of exogenous and endogenous variables and pretested. The study findings showed that COVID-19 pandemic situations affected educational institutions at a large scale. The social distancing rule was opted to minimise the risk of infection and university libraries were also closed down. However, due to online learning transformation, library materials were digitalized and online library services were provided to students and faculty members.

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Determinants of Postgraduates’ Use of Electronic Information Resources in Federal Universities in Southern Nigeria

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Libraries and librarians’ roles in ensuring cyberethical behaviour

Libraries and librarians’ roles in ensuring cyberethical behaviour

Research Productivity for Augmenting the Innovation Potential of Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach and MICMAC Analysis

Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

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