ERIC Number: EJ1375504
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1361-4533
EISSN: EISSN-1740-7834
Perceptions and Practices of Scholarly Self-Publishing among Nigerian Librarians: Implications for Scholarly Communication
Adeyemi, Ismail Olatunji; Sulaiman, Kabir Alabi
New Review of Academic Librarianship, v28 n4 p366-382 2022
The study examined perceptions and practices of self-publishing among Nigerian librarians and its implications for scholarly communication. The study adopts sequential exploratory strategy of mixed methods research design. Interview and web-based questionnaire were used to collect data for the study. Twelve (12) participants were interviewed and 149 responses were collected using Web-questionnaire. It was found that scholarly self-publishing will increase the volume of literature but would have a negative effect on the standard of scholarly communication. It was found that scholarly self-publishing will increase poor quality in scholarly works and promote elements of bias. Findings show that issues of verifiability and reliability of scholarly self-published authors will be a concern in scholarly communication. It was shown that there is no statistically significant relationship between perceptions and practices of scholarly self-publishing. It was concluded that scholarly self-publishing will negatively affect the quality of scholarly communication but will promote open access initiatives.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Librarians, Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Faculty Publishing, Information Dissemination, Librarian Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Standards, Behavior, Desktop Publishing
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nigeria
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