Acceptance and Usage of Bibliographic Management Software in Higher Education: The Student and Teacher Point of View

摘要

There is a need to investigate the factors affecting researchers’ awareness and usage of Bibliographic Management Software (BMS) to deal with the plagiarism issue. This study aims to assess the student and teacher acceptance of BMS. A quantitative approach involves 108 samples collected from various higher education institutions in Indonesia is used. The design of the questionnaire adopts the six dimensions and 19 acceptance variables based on the Unified Theory Technology of Acceptance and User of Technology (UTAUT) model, and for the data analysis, this study uses a t-test for path analysis. This study found that the use of BMS has had accepted student and teacher points of view. In addition, this study confirms that behavior intention and facilitating conditions significantly influence the use of behavior from the student and teacher’s point of view when interacting with BMS. This finding could provide more understanding of students’ and teachers’ acceptance of BMS use for academic activities.