Self-archiving of scientific researches at University of Algeria: a field study with professors of the University of Constantine 02, Abdelhamid Mehri

Abstract

Self-archiving is the latest methodes of publishing and dessiminating scientific researches via the web, and is carried out in digital repositories or researchers’ sites (personal, institutional). Thus, the study aims at highlighting the professors’contribution at the University of Constantine 02, Abdelhamid Mehri in enriching the personal pages available via the web with their scientific researches. Therefore, the study is applied to a sample of 114 university professors belong to all the faculties and institutes at the University of Constantine 02. The questionnaire’s results reveal that most of those professors do not have personal pages available via the web, even those who own pages refrain from self-archiving their researches because they do not have time due to the teaching charges.