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Abstract
This study investigated the factors associated with academics in Nigeria in their effort to share and make data freely accessible. Knowing vividly that Nigeria does not have any model governing data sharing practices, understanding the motivations and inspirations of Nigerian academics would definitely offer and encourage quite a number of those with negative thoughts to get involved in such practices. The study used a quantitative survey method by analyzing responses from 57 Nigerian academics studying in Malaysia universities drawn from diverse disciplines. The findings were analyzed and revealed that academics are more willing to share and make their data publicly available. Factors such as policy/guidelines, organizational structure, organizational culture, anticipated benefits, altruism and conditions for data sharing were found to be motivational concepts that inspire academics to share data. The study further revealed that despite tremendous benefits attached to data sharing, the practices seems not to be welcomed by majority of Nigerian academics.