This paper presents results from a preliminary investigation into the situation regarding access to electronic healthcare information in developing countries, focusing on the circumstances in the Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria. A review of current literature examines broader issues around access to electronic information in developing countries, and specific issues regarding electronic healthcare information. Studies that particularly focus on the situation in Nigeria are identified. Information gathered from a series of interviews with the librarian at the Medical Library identify a number of issues, including the lack of an adequate ICT infrastructure and affordable online access, and a need for library staff and library users to gain ICT skills and information seeking skills. Areas for further research are identified.

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This study investigated the knowledge, perception and attitude of Nigerian students to plagiarism. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire which was self administered by the researchers to the respondents. The respondents were 282 first year students in the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. The collected data was analyzed with frequency counts and percentage. The major findings show that the knowledge of plagiarism among the students prior to their being taught the subject was very low. However, after being exposed to the subject through teaching, their knowledge increased significantly. The respondents perceived some reasons as significant to the incidence of plagiarism among students. These included: fear of being scored poorly, awareness that other students were doing it, the opportunities for copying offered by the Internet, and the absence of punishment for plagiarism-related offences. The attitude of respondents to strategies for curbing plagiarism showed that respondents favoured corrective measures over punitive measures. The study concluded that university administrations should pay close attention to this problem by developing strategies that can help resolve it.

Background Adolescent female students should be provided opportunities to access reproductive health information to navigate this period of development successfully. Examining the use of the Internet for accessing reproductive health information by this group will provide useful information on their information needs and seeking behaviour. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the use of the Internet for reproductive health information among adolescent female students in secondary schools in Enugu, Nigeria. Method This descriptive study was conducted on adolescent female students in six secondary schools in Enugu urban. Data were collected using a self‐administered questionnaire. A total of 120 adolescent female students participated in the study. Findings The adolescent female students use the Internet to seek for information on general see education (n = 120, 100%), sexual hygiene (n = 71, 59%), abstinence from premarital sex (n = 68, 57%), avoidance of sexual abuse (n = 67, 56%). Their preference for the Internet include its privacy (n = 115, 96%) and wealth of information (n = 111, 92%). Conclusions Adolescent female students use the Internet to meet their reproductive health information needs. Access to the Internet should be enhanced for this group.

In order that librarians may achieve research success within the academic environment, a convenient working schedule equivalent to that of teaching colleagues is a sine qua non. To investigate this issue, a descriptive survey, including a questionnaire, was used to examine the opinions of selected academic librarians on the issue of flexible working hours, in order to establish whether present (inflexible) working arrangements have any effect on the publication output of librarians in Nigeria. The study revealed that the potential benefit of flexible working arrangements is widely accepted among academic libraries. The paper concludes by suggesting that a wider study be carried out that would seek the views of library directors or administrators in Nigeria on the implementation of this new working arrangement, in order to tackle a problematic issue for academic librarians.