Demographic and Socio-Economic Attributes As Determinants of Information and Communication Technology Use for Scholarly Communication in Nigerian (Report‪)‬

Introduction Scholarly communication has been defined as the system through which research and other scholarly writings (new knowledge) are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community and preserved for future use (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2003). Shaughnessy (1989) defined it as a social phenomenon whereby intellectual and creative activity is passed from one scholar to another, while Parekh (2000) described it as a process through which scholars convey their knowledge to, and exchange ideas with each other and future generations. Case (2002) sees scholarly communication as the process by which scholars and scientists conduct their research and make the results of their work known. From the definitions scholarly communication can be defined as the process whereby knowledge is created, evaluated, disseminated and preserved to support the universities' research, teaching and service mission of the institution. This paper will deal more with knowledge generation and communication.