Faculty Awareness and Willingness to Deposit Local Contents to Institutional Repositories in Nigeria: A Case Study

The study investigated the awareness and willingness of faculty staff in University of Nigeria, Nsukka to deposit their research works in their university institutional repository. An online questionnaire was designed to collect data from 185 faculty members in seven departments in the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The study found that the faculty members are aware of the benefits of depositing in IR. They are willing to submit content to the IR. They believe that the repository is a necessity for the university and their own research visibility. The faculty members agreed that factors such as poor internet connectivity, lack of technical know-how, lack of motivation from management, time-consuming, fear of plagiarism, copyright issues might hinder them from depositing documents to the IR of the university. The study recommends that university management should provide incentives for academic staff to motivate them to deposit or self-archive their locally produced contents in the IR, and that universities should provide regular training sessions to members of academic staff on how to upload local contents in IRs