Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study determined the influence of online resources accessibility and information seeking behavior on academic performance of students in colleges of education in Nigeria. Three objectives and three research questions guided the study.  Survey research method was adopted and questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection of the study. The population of the study consisted of 45, 893 total of 300 level; students as at 2018/2019 academic session. A multi-stage sampling techniques was involve using random sampling techniques to select two colleges each from the six geo-political zones in Nigeria and the second stage was rising Krejcie and Morgan’s allocation formular the determine the sample size of each of the colleges. The study revealed that online resources journals, online books, online projects, online newspaper, online e-resources databases, Ebscohort, agora, Jstor, Koha, science direct, Hinari peer review, journals were available in college libraries. High level of access availability of these resources in the college libraries through students also access internet services through their mobile phones this is another reason for high level is access these has influence on the academic performance of students. The major challenge in the use of online resources and database, other factors are irregular power supply inadequate internet facilities, poor infrastructure lack good information seeking skills. It was recommended among others that colleges management should take it very important to make available other relevant online resources which is only support the studies but entire category of library users.