Abstract
One of the recent resources used at university libraries is institutional repositories (IRs) which have been considered one of the disseminating and preserving ways for academic research publications. IRs have received considerable attention from researchers across disciplines and around the globe. While that have potentially increased public value, ranking, prestige and visibility of researchers and relevant universities. In this regard, the main aim of this paper is to determine researchers’ attitude concerning the utilization of institutional repositories via a modified Technology Acceptance Model at the University Putra Malaysia (UPM). A structured questionnaire was designed, and a survey was taken using a sample of 90 researchers. The results showed that researchers were aware of the institutional repository and had an attitude an interest of presenting their research to their university repository. They were under the impression that by presenting their research to the institutional repository, their university ranking will increase in addition to the citation impact of their research work.
Highlights
Institutional Repositories (IRs) are extensively gaining popularity and becoming a vital part of academic institutions
This finding is consistent with similar studies in the literature (Ukwoma & Dike, 2017) the similar conclusion of academics had the attitude toward using IR
The fourth hypothesis (H4) states that Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU) has a positive effect on Perceived Usefulness (PU), this claim was supported in this study (β = 0.31, t-value = 2.85, P
Summary
Institutional Repositories (IRs) are extensively gaining popularity and becoming a vital part of academic institutions. IRs are currently defined as digital collections for the capture and maintain of the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community (Bangani, 2018). IRs have gained eminence in developed and third world countries since they provide a solution for content management in universities (Ukwoma and Dike, 2017). Anenene et al (2017) defined an IR as a series of services offered by a university to its members with the aim of managing, organizing and diffusing digital work produced by these members. An IR can be considered a digital archive that presents a platform for universities to archive relevant intellectual output. IRs may consist of learning objects, administrative documents, conference proceedings, seminar papers, course notes, projects, dissertations, these and various other types of grey literature
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