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Health sciences faculty perception and practices on OA scholarly communication

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dc.creator Lwoga, Edda Tandi
dc.date 2019-05-11T09:52:24Z
dc.date 2019-05-11T09:52:24Z
dc.date 2013
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T12:25:21Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T12:25:21Z
dc.identifier 2223-7062
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/178
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/73365
dc.description This study sought to investigate the faculty’s awareness, attitudes and use of open scholarly communication in Tanzanian health sciences universities. Based on a questionnaire survey, 415 faculty members were selected through a stratified random sampling from a population of 679 in all eight health sciences universities in Tanzania. The response rate was 71.1%. The study found a high level of engagement with scholarly publishing, where senior members were more likely to participate in scholarly communication as journal authors, referee and editors. The majority of respondents were aware about open access (OA) issues; however, a small proportion of faculty’s research materials was made available in OA. Senior faculty with more proficient technical skills are more likely to use OA than junior faculty. Major barriers to OA usage were related to ICT infrastructure, awareness, skills, journal author pay model, and copyright and plagiarism concerns. This study recommends the following: universities to improve information and communication technology infrastructure, and develop institutional repositories and policies, and librarians to create awareness about OA, conduct information literacy programmes, and provide information services on copyright management issues and other related OA aspects. This is first comprehensive and detailed study focusing on the health sciences faculty use behaviour of OA initiatives in Tanzania, and reveals findings that are useful for planning and implementing OA initiatives in other institutions with similar conditions.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education
dc.subject OA, scholarly communication, health sciences, faculty, Tanzania, Africa
dc.subject scholarly communication
dc.subject open access
dc.subject OA
dc.subject health sciences
dc.subject faculty
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Africa
dc.title Health sciences faculty perception and practices on OA scholarly communication
dc.type Article


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