Use Of Academic Social Networking Sites Among Lecturers In State Universities

Abstract

The study investigated the use of Academic Social Networking Sites among Lecturers in State Universities in South East, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive surveydesign. Four (4) research questionsguided the study. The population of the study comprised 200Lecturersin the fiveStateUniversities spread across the fiveStates of South-East, Nigeria. The entire 200questionnaires wereadministered to the respondents;all were filled,returnedand used for the study because the entire population size was manageable. The major findings of the study were that Google Scholar and ResearchGate weremostly used by the Lecturer. Findings showed that the purpose of using Academic Social Networking Sitesis for Knowledge Sharing and Downloading of Articles. The reason Lecturers upload publications in the Academic Social Networking Sites arefor Citations, Information sharing and increasing of Views/Reads.The finding also revealed that majority of Lecturers access Academic Social Networking SitesMultiple times a day and also Daily.Based on the findings, it was recommended that Lecturers should explore other Academic Social Networking Sites due to their potentials in facilitating research activities, information sharing, collaboration among researchers, knowledge updates and so on