Open Access Publishing and Its Implications for Consortium Building in Nigerian Academic Libraries

Abstract

The article discusses Open Access (OA) movement of publishing and its implications on consortia building in Nigerian university libraries. Predicated on an expansive literature review, the study examines how OA publishing principles and practices, such as open access to scholarly literature, institutional repositories, and cooperative publishing models that can foster resource sharing,
reduce costs, and consolidate cooperative agreements among university libraries in Nigeria. The review highlights both the potential and challenges that OA offers in the Nigerian context, including infrastructural deficiencies, budgetary constraints, and policy void. Results from the literature form the basis for discussing strategies for academic libraries to effectively instill OA publishing into consortium building activities. This study contributes to ongoing discourse on sustainable knowledge access and collective capacity building in Nigerian universities.