Abstract

The study aims to identify the factors affecting researchers’ intention to adopt RDM training services. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the study examines the effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions on the intention to adopt RDM training services. It also explores how researchers’ prior experience with RDM affects their adoption intentions. An online survey was distributed to researchers at universities of Science and Technology in South Korea. The data were analyzed using frequency analysis, validity testing, internal consistency reliability analysis, and path analysis to test the proposed hypotheses. Most of the researchers who participated in this study had experience in research data management, and it was found that the external motives (performance expectancy) and perceived usefulness (effort expectancy) had the greatest effect on the intention to accept RDM training services. In addition, it was confirmed that the organizational support (facilitating conditions), subjective norms (social influence), and the experience of writing a research data management plan (DMP) also had a significant effect on the intention to accept education services. This study result will help to guide the planning of the future RDM training service in the university library of Korea.