Influence of Electronic Information Resources on Publication Output of Librarians in Niger Delta and Delta State University, Nigeria

Mercy Arodovwe Igere

doi:10.7176/ikm/10-4-05

Abstract

The publication output of librarians in the past years has been observed to be very poor as most of the librarians complain of the difficulty in writing journal articles to publish in reputable journals. This brought about the investigation of the influence of electronic information resources on publication output of librarians in Niger Delta University Bayelsa and Delta State University, Abraka in Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used in the study. Questionnaire was the instrument used in collecting data. The population for the study was made up of 30 librarians in Niger Delta University Bayelsa and Delta State University, Abraka. The entire population was used as sample because of its small size. Data were analyzed using simple percentage, descriptive statistics. The study found that the publication output level of the respondents in the universities sampled is low; the most used electronic resource are EBSCOHOST, HINARI, Open Access Journal, Open Access Books, AJOL, AGORA and Science Direct. The study also shows that there was no significant relationship between electronic information resources and publication output of librarians though electronic Information had a negative influence on the publication output of librarians. The study therefore recommends that librarians should make good use of electronic information resources which will positively influence publication output. Keywords : Electronic, Information Resources, Publication Output, Librarians DOI: 10.7176/IKM/10-4-05 Publication date: June 30 th 2020

Highlights

Publication output is the number of outcome of a research published in journals, scholarly books that are recommended for librarians publications in a field relevant to his/her study and provoke reactions by throwing up challenges to colleagues (Moed, Glanzel and Schmoch 2005)
The advent of information communication technology has brought about ease in accessing information resources relating to every area of life
It is expected that with the influx of information resources as regard technology, there would be a positive influence on publication output but the study has revealed that the publication output of librarians in the study area is low

Summary

Introduction

Publication output is the number of outcome of a research published in journals, scholarly books that are recommended for librarians publications in a field relevant to his/her study and provoke reactions by throwing up challenges to colleagues (Moed, Glanzel and Schmoch 2005). The number of publications output is the number of research activities carried out that are documented for future research references. In order words Publication output is expressed as the number of publications per person in a year equivalents for research. These publications promote the librarians nationally and internationally thereby contributing to the knowledge of the public who will be able to access the information resource at a given period of time. Electronic information resources or electronic resources (e-resources) are knowledge kept electronically in computer device such as flash drives, digital libraries or the internet (Ani, 2013) This information in electronic format could be access at anytime and anywhere where there is network. Www.iiste.org the influence of electronic information resources on publication output of librarians

Literature review

Methods

What is the level of publication output of librarians in the institutions?

Conclusion and Recommendations