UTILIZATION OF OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES FOR ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY BY ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN NORTHWESTERN

UTILIZATION OF OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES FOR ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY BY ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN NORTHWESTERN: Open access (OA) is now going on everywhere across geographical locations in the globe, including Nigeria. Although the global pattern and level of awareness, deployment and utilization may follow the paths of digital advantage, the movement has gained tremendous pace, probably due to increased global access to the Internet, the activities of OA promoters and the pertinence of the mission of the movement. Dulle (2010), while analyzing the open access scholarly communication in public universities in Tanzania, stressed that like in many other developing countries, accessing and disseminating scholarly content is a major problem in public universities in Tanzania. Accordingly, John (2014) stated that access to scholarly information is the biggest problem in African universities. The dearth of research and development program in African universities, access barriers to high priced scholarly literature and lack of quality