Abstract This study seeks to explore institutional repository, social networking, and bibliographic databases of scholarly communication in Nigeria. Six institutional repositories (IR) were selected and five leading authors had their works manually crosschecked in two citation indexes and self-archived in social networking sites. The results reveal that faculty members have embraced self-archive on academic social network platforms, while their records in the IR do not reflect this. The study recommends Universities' management to implore academics to self-archive their publications into their IR, while the libraries too could search bibliographic databases and social network sites to update their respective IR platforms.

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对尼日利亚学术界学术交流的机构知识库、社交网络和书目数据库的探索性研究

摘要 本研究旨在探索尼日利亚学术交流的机构知识库、社交网络和书目数据库。选择了六个机构知识库 (IR)，五个主要作者的作品在两个引文索引中手动交叉核对，并在社交网站上自行存档。结果表明，教职员工已经在学术社交网络平台上接受了自我存档，而他们在 IR 中的记录并未反映这一点。该研究建议大学管理层恳请学者将其出版物自行归档到他们的 IR，而图书馆也可以搜索书目数据库和社交网站以更新各自的 IR 平台。