The study investigated the awareness and use of open access (OA) channels for scholarly publishing by researchers at selected universities in Kenya. A sample of 341 faculty members, from three public universities, was selected for the study. A questionnaire was used as the main data collection instrument. The findings revealed that there is a considerably high level of awareness among the researchers; librarians were the main channel with regard to creating awareness; the OA channels that are more frequently used by researchers are OA journals, OA institutional repositories and OA e-books; the researchers mostly published/disseminated theses and dissertations, conference proceedings and workshop/seminar presentations through OA channels; and searching and accessing research articles, developing research proposals and formulating research problems were among the main reasons why researchers used open access channels. There are several reasons why researchers sometimes do not use OA channels for research. The study makes several recommendations for the adoption and effective use of OA channels in the selected universities and beyond.

这项研究调查了肯尼亚部分大学的研究人员在学术出版方面对开放获取（OA）渠道的认识和使用。选择了来自三所公立大学的341名教职员工的样本进行研究。问卷被用作主要数据收集工具。调查结果表明，研究人员之间的认识水平很高。图书馆员是提高认识的主要渠道；研究人员更经常使用的OA渠道是OA杂志，OA机构知识库和OA电子书。研究人员主要通过OA渠道发表/散布了论文和论文，会议论文集和研讨会/研讨会报告；以及搜索和访问研究文章，制定研究计划和提出研究问题是研究人员使用开放访问渠道的主要原因之一。研究人员有时不使用OA渠道进行研究的原因有很多。该研究为在选定的大学及以后的大学中采用和有效使用开放获取渠道提出了一些建议。