Abstract

The rapid change in scholarly communication and knowledge management has transformed the repository services and imposed new skills and competencies for repository management. This study is posed to assess the skills and competencies of librarians for repository management and scholarly communication in academic institutions in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design to assess the skills and competencies of the librarians using NASIG “Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians 2017”. The sample size of the study comprises 120 librarians across 40 institutions. The findings of the study indicate among others that; 74 % of the librarians have a general understanding of repository platforms, 54.17% background knowledge of open access movement, and 58% experience in advocacy for open access. At the same time, 83.3% of the librarians can capture, store, and preserve the research output. While 62.3% understand research impact, only 35.8% understand emerging alternatives measures of the impact. Although, 73.1 % understand Data description and storage, only 20.8% understand text and data mining. The study concluded that awareness, skills, and competencies of the librarians is increasing and recommends among others; setting up a framework for the employment of repository and scholarly communication librarians and training on repository management and scholarly communication.

Highlights

  • Meant for underpinning and legitimizing new trend of scholarly communication but shifting the economic burden of scholarly publishing (Lynch, 2003)

  • Based on the success being recorded by open access movement, Bergman (2006) forecasted that open access journal and digital repositories will continue to coincide with commercial journals as real means of scholarly communication in the foreseeable future (ImeldawatyGultom, et al, 2020)

  • Out of the 120 respondents, 29.17 % were female, 70.83% were male working as librarians at the repository and scholarly communicationrelated positions in across 40 institutions in Nigeria

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Introduction

Meant for underpinning and legitimizing new trend of scholarly communication but shifting the economic burden of scholarly publishing (Lynch, 2003). Institutional repository is a strategy devised by open access movement to facilitate the widespread implementation of open access across research institutions globally. Institutional repository revolutionized the publication process in the scholarly community, making research findings more visible and accessible in an affordable and financial convenience manner. It becomes an indispensable avenue for scholarly communication in the global research community (Marsh, 2015). Instruction “Open Access 65 “Repository 89 “Advocates for Open 70 “Building cross- 62 movement & its platforms”

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