Enhancing Quality Research Productivity of Academic Staff through Availability and Utilisation of E-Journals in Selected Tertiary Institutions in Cross River State Nigeria

Abstract

Academic staff care responsible for generating new ideas in any contemporary society due to their efforts in conducting quality research  especially in this period of information proliferation. This study explored the qualities of research productivity of academic staff given availability and utilisation of e-journals in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Two research questions were used and a single hypothesis was  formulated to guide the study. The descriptive survey research design was adopted and the population of the study was two thousand  four hundred and ninety-three (2493) academic staff, while four hundred and ninety-nine (499) academic staff were sampled using stratified and purposive sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analysed using  descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The result showed that e-journals are available in all the institutions  under study and that utilisation of e-journals has a significant influence on the research productivity of academic staff. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Electronic journals should be made available to academic staff without stringent barriers in getting  access to them and that subscription to more electronic journals which may not be access by staff should be periodically made available  by the institutions to boost their knowledge and access to materials for their research work.