Influence of information literacy skills on research productivity of academic staff of federal universities in North-eastern Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated influence of Information literacy skills on research productivity of academic staff of federal universities in Northeastern, Nigeria. A survey design was adopted in carrying out the study. The population for this study comprised of 4258 academic staff of six (6) federal universities in North-eastern, Nigeria, from which a sample of 366 was drawn and used for the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. Simple random sampling was used to select three (3) out of the six federal universities so as to have a manageable sample simple size these includes; Abubakar Tafawabalewa University Bauchi, University of Maiduguri and Federal University Wukari Thereafter, stratified sampling method was used to select four faculties common to all the universities, namely faculty of Education, Science, Agriculture and Social science. The data collected were analyzed using percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results of the study among others showed that information literacy skills had no significant effect on research productivity of academic staff in federal universities in the North-eastern. This implies that the level of information literacy skill of the academic staff cannot determine their research productivity. The study recommended among others that Academic staff universities in the North-eastern, Nigeria should be encouraged to utilize their information literacy skills in order to enhance the research productivity.