Awareness and Adoption of Self-Archiving Practice among Academic Authors in Nigerian Federal Universities: A Review of Related Literature

Abstract

This paper reviews and highlights the Awareness and Adoption of Self-Archiving Practice among Academic Authors in Nigerian Federal  Universities: A Review of Related Literature. The paper further presents the concept of Academic publishing, need for self-archiving  practices, academic authorship in Nigeria. The paper further presents some potential of Academic Authors awareness on Open Access  Repository, institutional repositories and selfarchiving, requirements for the successful Adoption of SelfArchiving Practices, as well as the  challenges associated with Institutional Repositories in Nigerian Libraries. The awareness of the adoption of self-archiving practices among academic authors has become inevitable if they are to remain, objective, respectful and relevant to modern societies. Exploring  the concepts, significance, requirements and acceptance of such practices has also become necessary and significant to all academic disciplines. The paper further recommends for the provision of adequate and special training to Academic authors particularly in  Nigerian Federal Universities, on the importance of self-archiving adoption and how to sustain it through open access repositories. There  is also the need to enlighten and sensitize the academic authors on the existence and importance of various repositories used to deposit  open access publication in the modern world. The concept of open access repositories should be a major component in the University  Library services operations in Nigerian universities.