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Access To Online Academic Databases To Improve The Quality Of Academic Research Among Postgraduate Students Of Education In Nigerian Universities
1. University of Nebraska - Lincoln
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 2021
Access to Online Academic Databases to Improve the Quality of
Access to Online Academic Databases to Improve the Quality of
Academic Research among Postgraduate Students of Education
Academic Research among Postgraduate Students of Education
in Nigerian Universities
in Nigerian Universities
Baptista C. Chigbu
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, baptista.chigbu@unn.edu.ng
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Chigbu, Baptista C., "Access to Online Academic Databases to Improve the Quality of Academic Research
among Postgraduate Students of Education in Nigerian Universities" (2021). Library Philosophy and
Practice (e-journal). 5726.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/5726
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Access to Online Academic Databases to Improve the Quality of Academic
Research among Postgraduate Students of Education in Nigerian Universities
Baptista C. Chigbu1, PhD
Department of Educational Foundations, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Abstract
This study was designed to determine the access to and utilization of online databases by
postgraduate students of the faculties of education of the six foremost universities in Nigeria.
The study sought to ascertain the online databases accessed by the most of the students,
factors influencing regularity of access and constraints to access regular access to the
databases. A total of 365 postgraduate students were randomly drawn from the six
universities by proportional allocation for the study. Questionnaire was used to obtain
relevant data which were analyzed using multiple responses and binary logistic regression.
The most accessed online databases were Google Scholar, ResearchGate, JSTOR, Science
DOAJ and EBSCOHost, motivated by free access and relevance to research interests. The
documents were mainly used for postgraduate dissertation/thesis and assignments. Sex,
degree in-view, free access, finance, personal laptop and Smartphone, and helpfulness of
research materials significantly influenced regularity of access. The males are 0.963 times
more likely to access online databases regularly than the females while the PhD students are
1.041 times more likely to access online databases more regularly than the other postgraduate
categories. It is recommended that the universities should subscribe to notable online
databases and improve on the quality of institution-based internet facility to boost access to
and of online databases.
Keywords: constraint; internet access; logistic regression; multiple response; online database
1
Correspondences should be addressed to baptista.chigbu@unn.edu.ng
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1. Introduction
In the past, the academic community was slowed down by lack of current literature
and resources for quality research outputs (Rafi, Ming and Ahmad, 2018). However, the
renaissance in the information and communication technology (ICT) in the early 1990s
birthed serious awakening in information storage, sharing, access and usage of research
materials among academics and researchers. The dawn of digital technology has rapidly cut
boundaries and made available standard rich, reliable and accessible databases for journal
articles, electronic books (e-books) and other electronic resources for all areas of academic
research (Montenegro et al., 2016 and Rogers and Nielsen, 2017). The online database
resources have become important component of many academic libraries who make available
bibliographic, abstracts, multimedia, full-text, directory and numerous database resources to
the staff and students of the academic institutions (Naqvi, 2012 and Kwadzo, 2015). The
exciting aspect of the online resources database is that it is widely available, could be
accessed from anywhere at any time and by many users at the same time and at the
researcher’s convenience (Emwanta and Nwalo, 2013, Kwadzo, 2015 and Ani, Ngulube and
Onyancha, 2015).
Postgraduate students in their respective disciplines are among the major beneficiaries
of the online databases revolution as it facilitates their research activities (Montenegro et al.,
2016). Despite the obvious advantages and prospects of the online databases for academic
research and development, access to and use of these databases by postgraduate students,
especially in developing countries like Nigeria is still engrossed in many challenges (Akinola
et al., 2018). Therefore, this study is aimed at assessing the faculty of education postgraduate
students’ access and use of online databases for their postgraduate research activities, the
constraints to accessing the digital platforms.
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2. Literature Review
The emergence of online research databases has been the subject of many research
activities across the globe. Different authors have studied the impact of the digital research
databases on the academic and research productivities of different disciplines and careers.
Shaqour and Daher (2010) conducted a study on the factors which influence the use of
electronic resources by the students of the An-Najah National University, Palestine by
collecting data using questionnaire. Their findings revealed that the students are well-
informed of the benefits of the electronic resources to academic development. They
discovered that the students’ use of the electronic resources is strongly correlated with the
provision of the electronic resources by the university but are weakly related to course
requirements, students’ attributes and instructor support. Another case study on the use of
certain electronic database, Research4Life, for research development was carried out by
Obasuyi and Okwilagwe (2016) at the National Agricultural Research Institute in Nigeria.
Many studies have focused their assessment on the university lecturers to ascertain the
impact of the emergent electronic databases on their research outputs. The number, quality
and frequency of research publications, conferences and workshop attendances and other
academic activities have been reviewed by many authors. Rafi, Ming and Ahmad (2018)
studied the impact of digital library database resources on the productivity of academic
research of 52 universities provided by Higher Education Commission (HEC). The aim of the
study was to develop excellent academic policy through evaluation of the effectiveness of the
database resource utilization. Using simple linear regression to analyze the impact of digital
databases on research productivity, it was shown that access to digital databases has
significantly impacted on the research productivity of the universities. In conclusion, they
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submitted that ultimate use of standard database resources can help higher academic research
in developing innovative ideas and improve researchers’ cognitive abilities.
Eiriemiokhale (2019) evaluated the influence of demographic factors on the
utilization of electronic databases by the university lecturers in the Southwest region of
Nigeria. The target population comprised of all the lecturers in twelve public universities in
the region. The study revealed that the electronic databases available to the lecturers in the
region are Directory of Open Access Journals, African Journals Online, International
Research Journals, Google Scholar, etc. Job status and age of the lecturers are the two
demographic factors significantly influencing use of electronic databases by the lecturers of
the universities in Southwest, Nigeria. Related study was conducted by Aina (2014) on the
level of awareness, accessibility and use electronic databases by the academic staff of
Babcock University Business School in Nigeria. Also, Farouk and Yusuf (2016) have
evaluated the factors affecting the use of electronic databases by the academic staff of Bayero
University, Kano State, Nigeria. Adetomiwa and Okwilagwe (2018) focused the study of
awareness and use of electronic databases to determine the level of research productivity of
lecturers on the academic staff of private universities in Nigeria.
Some studies have been conducted to ascertain the impact of access to electronic
resources by undergraduate students on their academic performances (see Emwanta and
Nwalo, 2013 and Adepoju, 2017). However, the postgraduate students are the ones at the
forefront of budding academic research and development. The influences of the utilization of
materials from online databases by postgraduate students have been given serious
consideration by some researchers. Naqvi (2012) studied the use of electronic databases by
postgraduate students and researchers at GBPUAT Library in India. The aim was to evaluate
the impact of access to databases on the research productivity of the postgraduate students
after huge investment on subscription, growth and management of the electronic databases in
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the library. Moreover, most of the postgraduate students and researchers received training on
how to access online databases. The study revealed that the electronic databases highly used
by the postgraduate students are AGRIS, AGRICOLA, CAB Abstract and agriculture and
natural resources. The level of awareness and use of electronic databases by the postgraduate
students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, was researched on by Akinola et al. (2018).
Their study was set to ascertain how well-informed the postgraduate students of the
university are of the existence of these electronic databases, the frequency of use, reason for
access, level of ICT skill and challenges in the use of the digital databases. The electronic
databases considered are JSTOR, AJOL, AGORA, HINARI, EBSCOHost, DOAJ and others.
The study revealed that most of the postgraduate students are aware of most of the online
databases but are not aware of the ones made available by the university. Furthermore, it was
shown that the frequency of use of the electronic database by postgraduate students is low.
Most of the studies focused on utilization of electronic databases by academic
staff of private and public universities while some considered postgraduate students of some
selected institutions. This study considered the postgraduate students of the faculty of
education in the six foremost universities in Nigeria, University of Ibadan, University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ahmadu Bello
University and University of Benin. These universities were established around the time of
Nigeria’s independence in 1960 and over the years, they have been the pacesetters in
academic research and development in Nigeria. The faculty of education in each of the
universities is known to have always produced the highest number of graduating postgraduate
students each year. Therefore, it is important to study their responses to the use of online
databases for their research and factors and constraints underlying their use of the electronic
research materials. Therefore, the objectives of the study are (i) to ascertain the most
frequently accessed online database for the education postgraduate students; (ii) the factors
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influencing regular access and use of the online database; and (iii) constraints to access and
utilization of online databases for quality academic output. Three research questions were
developed to facilitate achieving the objectives of the study and the research questions
include:
(i) What are the most frequently accessed online databases by postgraduate students of
Education in Nigerian universities?
(ii) What are the reasons and motivations for accessing an online database?
(iii) What are the factors influencing regular access to online databases?
(iv) What are the constraints to accessing online databases by the in Nigerian universities?
3. Methodology
The study adopted survey research design which primarily permits the use of
questionnaire for data collection from selected sample respondents (Akinola et al., 2018). The
population of the study is made up of the 7247 postgraduate students of the faculties of
education in the six foremost universities in Nigeria for the 2019/2020 academic year. The
universities are University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo
University, University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University and University of Benin. The
2019/2020academic session is important because these students are still on their programmes
which were delayed for over nine months by the COVID-19 lockdown and the nationwide
strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria. The registered number of
students admitted into the education programmes in the six universities were obtained from
the academic records of their various postgraduate schools. A sample of 365 postgraduate
students was drawn from the population at 95 % confidence level using the online Sample
Size Calculator by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Using proportional allocation, the
sample size of 365 was allocated to the six universities according to their education
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postgraduate students’ population in the order: 30, 92, 32, 161, 22 and 28, respectively, for
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University,
University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University and University of Benin. The required
number of students was selected from each of the school’s students’ records using systematic
sampling and their e-mail addresses and phone numbers were secured from the same source
as well.
Structured questionnaire was used to collect data on the students’ demographic and
research profiles; access and utilization of online academic databases; challenges to access
and use of the databases; and possible ways to sustain/improve access to online databases for
quality academic research and output among the students. To ensure efficient and effective
distribution and collection of the questionnaire, the postgraduate students identified for the
study were notified through their e-mail addresses and phone numbers about the survey and
the questionnaire completion beforehand. This made it easy for the fieldworkers who found
most of the students ready for the survey when they arrived with the questionnaire; there was
no need for callbacks and the return rate was very high.
To facilitate achieving the objectives of the study, the data were analyzed using
frequencies and percentages on multiple responses and binary logistic regression to ascertain
the factors influencing the regularity of access/use of the online databases. In the multiple
response analysis, response items have options which the respondents were allowed to select
as many as applied to them. Hence, the frequency for an option shows how many respondents
out of the 365 sample respondents selected that option and the percentage reflects the
proportion. The logistic regression was used to predict the dichotomous dependent variable
(regularity of access to online database) from a set of independent (predictor) variables. The
dependent variable was categorized into regular and non-regular access to online
academic/research database. Regular access was coded ‘1’ while non-regular access was
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coded ‘0’ which transformed regularity of access to binary variable and necessitated the use
of binary logistic regression. The predictor variables are sex, age, degree in-view, source of
sponsorship, quality of research materials, free access to research materials, adequate ICT
infrastructure in school, presence of ICT assistant in the university library, availability of
sufficient finance to buy research, availability of personal laptop, smart phone, etc., and
information from online database being helpful. The binary logistic regression considers
mixture of categorical and continuous predictor variables. The categorical predictor variables
are gender (with two categories, male and female), degree in-view (with five categories,
Masters’ degree, Postgraduate Diploma, M. Phil, Masters’/PhD and PhD) and source of
sponsorship (with five categories, scholarship, parents, guardian, self and philanthropist). The
other predictor variables are continuous. The SPSS Version 26 statistical software was used
to aid the analysis of the data.
4. Results and Discussion
Frequencies and percentages of the multiple response analysis of the databases being
accessed and used by the postgraduate students are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Percentage Summary of Online Databases Accessed by Respondents
Online Database Frequency*
Percent
JSTOR 162 44.4
Science Direct 111 30.4
Google Scholar 232 63.6
EBSCOHost 144 39.5
African Journals Online 107 29.3
BASE 20 5.5
CiteSeerX 20 5.5
Directory of Open Access Journals 160 43.8
Educational Resource Information Center 88 24.1
Index Copernicus 13 3.6
Mendeley 101 27.7
ORCID 9 2.6
ResearchGate 198 54.3
SCOPUS 34 9.3
Semantic Scholar 9 2.6
Web of Science 9 2.6
World Cat 9 2.6
Semantic Scholar 7 1.9
*
Multiple responses used
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The online databases accessed most by the respondents are Google Scholar (79.2%),
ResearchGate (58.4 %), JSTOR (55.3 %), Science Direct (48.2 %), Directory of Open Access
Journals (43.8 %) and EBSCOHost (39.5 %). Among these mostly accessed online research
databases, only Science Direct requires full subscription while JSTOR and EBSCOHost are
partly free; others are completely free.
Table 2: Use of Information, Motivation and Source Internet Access to Online Database
Access of Database Frequency*
Percent
Information used
for
Assignment 303 83.0
Development of dissertation 323 90.2
Preparation of journal article 111 31.0
Conference paper 49 13.7
Help a friend 45 12.6
Motivation Free contents 337 93.6
Contains research materials relevant to my research 279 77.5
University library subscription 116 32.2
Recommended by a friend 153 42.5
Source Internet
access
University virtual library 102 28.7
Personal data 328 92.4
Institution-based internet 164 44.9
Cybercafé 210 57.5
Assistance from friend/classmate 58 16.3
*
Multiple responses used
The respondents’ use of the information accessed from the online databases, what
informed their choice of database to access and means of internet/network to access the
online databases were summarized in the multiple response analysis in Table 2. Most of the
postgraduate students use the information obtained from the accessed databases to
development their postgraduate dissertation/thesis (90.2 %) and to do their assignments (83.0
%). Only 31.0 percent utilize the online resources for journal article preparation while 13.7 %
use it for conference papers. What motivated the postgraduate students (93.6 %) most to
access a database is because the online contents are free. This explains why the databases
accessed by most of the students are available for free or partly free. Another major
motivating factor for most of the postgraduate student (77.5 %) is that the database contains
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research materials relevant to their research needs. These results corroborate the findings of
Shaqour and Daher (2010) and Kwadzo (2015). Subscription by the university’s library to the
databases was the least motivating factor for the postgraduate students (32.2 %). Interactions
with some of the postgraduate students during the survey revealed that most of the
universities’ libraries do not subscribe to relevant databases or subscriptions have not been
renewed for a long time. That is why most of the students rely on free online databases for
their research materials.
Information on the postgraduate students’ sources of internet access for online
research resources revealed, as shown in Table 2, that personal data is the major source of
internet access to most of the respondents (92.4 %). Other sources of internet access for some
of the students are institution-based internet provision (44.9 %) and Cybercafés (57.5 %).
During personal conversations with some of the postgraduate students on the course of the
survey, some of them lamented weak, unstable and slow internet network from the
university’s internet facilities. The students disclosed that these have seriously affected their
ability to access highly needed research materials online for their assignments and
dissertations. The students admitted that they spend a lot of money on data and cybercafés to
access online research materials from the databases. The problem of unstable internet
network in the universities also affected the universities’ virtual libraries, making them often
frustrating and unreliable to use for research. These findings support the works of Aina
(2014).
Evaluation of the influence of some factors on the regularity of access of online
research databases by the postgraduate students was performed using the binary logistic
regression method. The model adequacy statistics for the binary logistic regression analysis
are presented in Table 3. The binary logistic regression test was performed at 0.05 level of
significance for the significance of the overall model, the goodness-of-fit test and the
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predictor variables. The Omnibus test of model coefficient gave a Chi-square value of 58.209
and p-value of 0.004 at 11 degrees of freedom (df). Since the p-value is less than the level of
significance (p < 0.05), it implies that the overall binary logistic regression model which
contains the binary dependent variable and the eleven predictor variables is statistically
significant and therefore suitable for predicting the regularity of access of online databases.
The Hosmer-Lemeshow statistic tests the null hypothesis that predictions made by the model
fit perfectly with observed group memberships; a goodness-of-fit test. The Chi-square result,
comparing the observed frequencies with the expected have value of 2.496 with p-value of
0.962 at 8 degrees of freedom. The p-value being less than 0.05 shows that the chi-square is
insignificant and indicates that the data fits the model well. The Nagelkerke R-square usually
have lower value than the R-square in multiple regression but interpreted the same manner.
With the Nagelkerke R-square having a value of 0.472 implies that the model explained 47.2
% of the variations in regularity of access of online databases by the postgraduate students.
Table 3: Summary of Logistic Regression Model Adequacy Statistics
Test Chi-Square df P-value
Omnibus 58.209 11 0.004
Hosmer-Lemeshow 2.496 8 0.962
Nagelkerke R Square = 0.472
Presented in Table 4 are the results of the binary logistic regression analysis of the
factors which predict the regularity of access and use of online databases for academic
research among the postgraduate students of the six foremost universities in Nigeria. The
Wald statistic (see column 4) was used to ascertain the statistical significance of each of the
independent variables in the model. The significant independent variables are the factors that
influence the regularity of access to online databases by the postgraduate students. From the
table, it could be seen that sex (0.037), degree in-view (0.009), free access (0.038), finance
(0.000), personal laptop, smartphone (0.001), and helpfulness of the research materials
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significantly predicted the regularity of access and use of online research databases by the
postgraduate students. Other factors such as age, sponsorship, quality of research materials,
adequate ICT infrastructure, and ICT assistance do not significantly predict the regularity of
access to online databases. Furthermore, sex, degree in-view and helpful were treated as
categorical variables and the numbers in brackets indicate the category significantly
influencing the dependent variable more than the other categories. These findings were also
revealed by Eiriemiokhale (2019). Considering the values of Exp(B), it implies that male
postgraduate students (coded 1) are 0.963 times more likely to access online databases
regularly than the females. The PhD students are 1.041 times more likely to access online
databases more regularly than the postgraduate Diploma, M. Phil, Masters’ and Masters/PhD
students.
Table 4: Analysis of the Coefficients of the Logistic Regression Model
Predictor B S.E. Wald df P-value Exp(B)
Sex(1) -0.038 0.227 4.028 1 0.037 0.963
Age 0.007 0.010 0.514 1 0.473 1.007
Degree in-view(5) 0.041 0.092 6.195 1 0.009 1.041
Sponsorship 0.178 0.118 2.288 1 0.130 1.195
Quality of research materials 0.141 0.101 1.947 1 0.163 1.151
Free access -0.028 0.084 5.112 1 0.038 0.972
Adequate ICT infrastructure 0.110 0.097 1.280 1 0.258 1.116
ICT assistant 0.077 0.090 0.726 1 0.394 1.080
Finance 0.125 0.111 10.257 1 0.000 1.133
Personal laptop, smartphone, etc. 0.062 0.104 0.358 1 0.001 1.064
Helpful 0.005 0.149 6.001 1 0.014 1.005
Constant -1.828 1.037 4.109 1 0.041 0.161
S.E. is standard error for B, the variable coefficient
The data on the constraints to accessing and utilizing online databases by the
postgraduate students for their academic works were evaluated with frequencies and
percentages under multiple response analysis. The results are summarized in Table 5.The
constraints identified in the study include: most needed research materials are not free (78.4
%); lack of sufficient finance to subscribe for needed research material (77.5 %); most of the
databases relevant to the students’ research needs are not subscribed to by the institution
library (87.7 %); university internet is not strong and stable (71.8 %); inability to afford
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internet data regularly for online access (84.7 %) and unstable electricity/power supply (61.4
%). Lack of printing facilities at the university library was considered the least constraint to
accessing online databases for academic research by the postgraduate students. Akinola et al.
(2018) obtained similar constraints to accessing online databases.
Table 5: Constraints to Accessing Online Research Database
Constraint Frequency*
Percent
Most of the materials I need are not free 286 78.4
I do not have sufficient finance to subscribe for the
materials I need for my research
283 77.5
The school library does not subscribe to most of the
databases relevant to my field
320 87.7
The university internet is not strong and stable 262 71.8
I cannot afford data regularly to access online
materials for my research
309 84.7
Unstable power supply 224 61.4
Lack of printing facilities 145 39.7
*
Multiple response used
5. Conclusion
The study examined the access and utilization on online databases by the faculty
education postgraduate students of the six foremost universities in Nigeria. Using multiple
response technique, the opinions of the respondents were ascertained on the type of databases
they usually access, the motivating factors, purpose for accessing the databases and the
constraints undermining full utilization of the online databases for quality research returns.
The analysis of the data revealed that the online databases accessed by most of the
postgraduate students are Google Scholar, ResearchGate, JSTOR, Science Direct, Directory
of Open Access Journals and EBSCOHost and most of them are fully or partly free. The
respondents were motivated mostly by the free access to most of the databases and because
the databases contain information relevant to their research interest. Also, the students used
the accessed documents mainly to develop their postgraduate dissertation/thesis and do their
assignments.
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The logistic regression analysis revealed that sex, degree in-view, free access, finance,
personal laptop and Smartphone, and helpfulness of the research materials are the factors
which significantly predict the regularity of access and use of online research databases by
the postgraduate students. Moreover, the male postgraduate students are more inclined to
access the online databases more regular than the female students. The same goes for the PhD
students for the degree in-view. However, the major constraints to accessing the online
databases by the students are that most needed research materials are not free; lack of
sufficient finance to subscribe/purchase needed research material; most of the databases
relevant to the students’ research needs are not subscribed to by the institution library;
university internet is not strong and stable; inability to afford internet data regularly for online
access and unstable electricity/power supply.
In conclusion, it is recommended that sufficient efforts be made by the various
university libraries to subscribe to notable online databases for enhance the access of the
postgraduate students to research materials relevant to their research activities. Also, the
university administrations should endeavour to upgrade the speed of the institution-based
internet. This will reduce the burden of buying internet data by the students in order to access
online databases for their research.
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