The Leading Role of University Libraries on the Ethics of Providing Big Data and the Analysis and the Extent of its Impact on Scientific Research: A survey of the libraries of the universities of the Kordofan sector.

Abstract

Information institutions, especially university libraries, are facing the inevitability of dealing with the big data revolution that emerged as a result of the increasing digitalization in size and quality. Accordingly, university libraries are concerned with dealing big data in many activities in terms of acquiring various sources, making available to search in databases available on knowledge banks, and statistical analyzes of the data used in addition to the tools for managing research data. In the light of the foregoing, the study sought to identify the significant role of university libraries in analyzing big data, and clarifying the ethics of its use in scientific research, as well as making it accessible to researchers to help solve problems and analyze the difficulties that libraries, researchers, and library workers may face in this huge revolution. This study also aimed at confronting the big data revolution and addressing it, taking into consideration the proficiency in dealing with its use software so that workers can analyze big data using sound scientific methods. The descriptive approach was used in relation to the data for presenting and defining the basic concepts of big data ethics. In addition, a survey method was used by studying a sample of library and information specialists in the universities of the Kordofan sector, in addition to the questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed by the SPSS program and reached a number of results in which 90% of the surveyed sample proved the possibility of employing big data analytics to develop university library services and support decision makers in the library, which is directly reflected on researchers and scientific research. The study recommends the need to develop an agreed upon scientific ethical standard to be adopted by the Sudanese Association for Libraries and Information with the Sudanese University Libraries Coalition approved by the Federation of Sudanese Universities and to be signed by the Ministry of Higher Education Scientific Research as a Sudanese scientific and legal specification on how to use big data and its analyzes in Sudanese university libraries.