Exploring academic staff engagement in depositing locally produced research content in open access institutional repositories in Tanzania

Mbughuni, Anna Shangwe; Mtega, Wulystan Pius; Malekani, Andrew

doi:10.1177/03400352211069157

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“…This study aimed at understanding the level of knowledge and practice of OS among scholars and researchers in Tanzania. This is the first study of its kind as opposed to earlier studies that only focused on OA, institutional repositories and OD (Mgonzo & Yonah 2014;Samzugi 2017;Nunda & Elia 2019;Buhomoli & Muneja 2020Kayungi et al 2021;Mwalubanda 2021;Mbughuni et al 2022). The results of this study are discussed below.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…No comprehensive study on awareness of OS and practices in Tanzania has been conducted. Several studies have focused on few aspects of OA, particularly, open publishing/OA (Dulle & Minishi-Majanja 2009;Nunda & Elia 2019;Mbughuni et al 2022). This study therefore, has established the level of awareness and practices of OS in academic and research institutions in Tanzania.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Knowledge and practices of open science among scholars and researchers in Tanzania

David¹,

Alimohamed²,

Paul³

et al. 2022

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The Open Science (OS) movement has been spreading rapidly among researchers with positive outcomes on accessibility of scientific knowledge. However, there is no clear evidence on the level of awareness and types of OS practices among scholars and researchers in Tanzania, potentially missing an opportunity to reap the rewards of the movement to scholarly pursuits. This study investigated the level of awareness of OS and practices among Tanzanian scholars and researchers. Findings of a digital survey conducted for three months and recruited 144 respondents, show a high level of awareness of the term OS for 84% of respondents, most of them having encountered it from peers or online sources including social media. About 69% of respondents were male while about 44% of respondents were early career professionals. Open access (OA) publishing was the most common OS activity practised by respondents, highlighting both the need to create awareness on other practices and an entry point for knowledge expansion. However, respondents highlighted the barriers to spreading of the OS movement in the country including lack of awareness, knowledge and skills, the lack of institutional support and concerns over data security and ownership. Findings of this study establish OA as the most common and important OS practice among Tanzanian scholars. They show the importance of online resources and peers to peer learning and in spreading OS awareness. The study also reveals several areas of advocacy and including setting supportive institutional policies and building infrastructure to support OS practices. We recomment establisment of robust guidelines, institutional support and clear opportunities to incentivize individuals to adopt OS practices ao as to achieve the momentum required to scale the movement beyond OA.

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Knowledge and practices of open science among scholars and researchers in Tanzania

David¹,

Alimohamed²,

Paul³

et al. 2022

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“…University social responsibility has been empirically proven to improve staff engagement (Albrech et al, 2015;Aguinis & Glavas, 2019;Boğan & Sarıışık, 2020;Farid et al, 2019;Glavas, 2016;Gond et al, 2017;Harter et al, 2020;Harvard Business Review, 2019;Katsikeas et al, 2021;Márquez-Ramos et al, 2020;Mbughuni et al, 2022;Osborne & Hammoud, 2017;Saks, 2019;Shek et al, 2017). Some of these existing studies also hypothesized that social responsibility significantly impacts organizational performance, including employee commitment (Saks, 2019) thereby improving employee (staff) or work engagement (Aguinis & Glavas, 2019;Farid et al, 2019;Glavas, 2016).…”

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Unveiling the heartbeat of employee engagement and social responsibility: the mediating role of affective commitment in Ghanaian Universities

Prempeh,

Dzansi

2024

IJRBS

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In the current higher education environment in Ghana, universities have directed their attention towards fulfilling their social obligations, which are referred to as University Social Responsibility (USR), to both their internal and external stakeholders. This study, driven by the Stakeholders Theory, examines the premise that affective commitment serves as a positive and substantial mediator in the relationship between USR and employee engagement. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of both internal and external corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives on the emotional commitment and level of involvement of employees in Ghanaian institutions. This study utilised the research onion framework to guide its methodology. It employed a cross-sectional survey design, based on the positivism paradigm and supported by the hypothetico-deductive model. The purpose was to test hypotheses and measure the relationships between user satisfaction and staff engagement, with affective commitment acting as a mediator. The study was conducted within the context of Ghanaian universities. A two-stage stratified sampling method was utilised to choose 412 participants for the survey. The data collected via a 5-point Likert scale empirically validated questionnaire with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (?) > 0.70 was adapted for the survey. The data collected were configured and subjected to Structural Equation Modelling for analysis at a significance level of p<.05 using the SMART pls software. This survey found that affective commitment is a statistically significant factor that directly explains and predicts the mediation effect of internal CSR on employee engagement (beta=0.217; t>1.96; p=0.000: p<0.05), and external CSR on employee engagement (beta=0.065; t>1.96; p=0.000: p<0.05) in Ghanaian universities enrolled in the survey. This study recommends that public and private universities in Ghana should foster a strong sense of commitment and loyalty among employees towards the organisation and its CSR efforts.

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“…Pondering on the practices of open research as floodgates of the future progresses and advancements have been hampered by different obstacles. Among them are lack of access to information about open research which hinders learning, stifles innovation and slows the research process (Yin, 2018), lack of awareness of the open research process, time limitations, lack of technical skills, an unstable network and electricity problems and fear of plagiarism (Mbughuni, Mtega & Malekani, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, intellectual property and information security, data validity and web abuse, financial support, quality and value of research data, cloud storage and data security, lack of interest in open research (Attoye, 2018;Nwokedi and Nwokedi, 2018), and lack of a good understanding of publishers' licensing policy (Singson et al, 2015) are the major challenges to open research. Mbughuni, Mtega and Malekani (2022) asserted that open research is also being challenged because some publishers do not give prompt feedback to academic staff when they send their manuscripts for publication, lack of training on open research and slow Internet speed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Engagement in Open Research Practices by Librarians in Kwara State, Nigeria

Sulyman

Ajani

Ahmed

2023

IJoL

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This study explores the engagement in open research practices by librarians in Kwara State, Nigeria. It operates with three objectives and questions. It uses descriptive survey method as its design and adopts convenience sampling technique to select 63 librarians who filled the questionnaire titled “Questionnaire on Exploring the Engagement in Open Research by Librarians in Kwara State,” which was sent to respondents through their WhatsApp groups. Findings revealed that respondents used open peer review, publishing research in open access platforms and depositing research in institutional repositories as channels of engaging in open research. It further shows that open research is of benefit to respondents by helping them in the creation of good research profiles, increasing connectivity among researchers and increasing findability and broadening readership of their works, while lack of training on open research, fear of plagiarism and lack of awareness of the open research process are the major factors retarding the engagement in open research by the respondents. This study concludes that open research is one of the mainstays of scientific evolution that enables researchers to increase visibility for their works and recommends amongst others that it is imperative for librarians in Kwara State to be making their research works available in open educational resources, it is one of the states with the highest library schools in Nigeria. Through this, students and other researchers can use their research works to broaden the status of teaching and learning.

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Exploring academic staff engagement in depositing locally produced research content in open access institutional repositories in Tanzania

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Knowledge and practices of open science among scholars and researchers in Tanzania

Knowledge and practices of open science among scholars and researchers in Tanzania

Unveiling the heartbeat of employee engagement and social responsibility: the mediating role of affective commitment in Ghanaian Universities

Exploring the Engagement in Open Research Practices by Librarians in Kwara State, Nigeria

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