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    TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF PUBLICATIONS OUTPUT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI LECTURERS
    (1999) ABBA, BUBA
    This study investigates the trends and patterns of publications output of the University of Maiduguri Lecturers. Attention was focused on publications output in terms of numbers, collaborative publications output and factors affecting publications output. The data gathering methods employed in this study are interview, documentary analysis, and Questionnaires. Data collected were quantified and tabulated. The analysis of responses revealed that there were significant differences in the publications output, collaborative publications output and factors affecting publications output, among lecturers of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Applied Science of the University of Maiduguri. Lotka' s law was applied to the publications output of lecturers in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Applied Sciences. Lotka' s law revealed that there is a significant difference in the application of the law in the four broad areas of knowledge. The outcome of the investigation suggests that lecturers encounter a lot of problems which made some of them publish and other do not. A knowledge of such problems formed the basis for the recommendations for this study. These include the University providing physical and non physical resources, providing publishing programmes, subsidizing its presses, establishing administrative measures to coordinate research and publications among lecturers and organizing a better regional campaign on how to promote research and publications in the University of Maiduguri.