Open access awareness, scholarly communication and research data management as predictors of knowledge dissemination among librarians in selected university libraries in Osun state, Nigeria

The transition from conventional scholarly publishing to open, data intensive and mediated research environments has expanded the responsibilities of academic librarians for knowledge dissemination. Evidence on how open access awareness, scholarly communication and research data management jointly relate to knowledge dissemination among librarians in Nigerian university libraries nevertheless remains limited, in part because these three domains are usually studied separately. This study exam