Measuring the role of faculty members in supporting and stimulating co-research and scientific publishing with the undergraduate students in the Department of Library and Information at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University: Scientific research at the undergraduate, scientific publishing at the undergraduate, collaborative research, co-research.

Scientific research at the undergraduate, scientific publishing at the undergraduate, collaborative research, co-research.

Abstract

The study analyzed and evaluated the role of faculty members of the library department on encouraging scientific research and publishing with undergraduate students. Where the study used the descriptive and analytical method to find out the most significant obstacles to scientific co-research and publication between the faculty member and the student. The study instrument was a questionnaire used and distributed to members of the Libraries Department. The results came in proving the existence of this problem among the faculty members, as the main challenges were the lack of time to prepare and conduct cooperative scientific research with the student, the delay in publishing procedures, the difficulty of publishing in ISI scientific journals, and a large number of administrative and teaching tasks and burdens faced by members of the Library and Information Department. The most important recommendations were to raise the level of scientific production for undergraduate students in the Library Department. The most important recommendations were to reduce costs and administrative burdens on faculty members and completely free them in research hours to conduct cooperative scientific research with students, to intensify scientific workshops in order to equip undergraduate students with research and scientific publishing skills, increase support for publishing research on graduation projects, and create scientific journals dedicated to supporting scientific publication for undergraduate students in literary and human sciences.