Publishing Platform Research Articles

Giant in Isolation: Online Journal Publishing in Nigeria

The wider a research result is communicated the higher its impact and benefits. Online journals are today the most effective means of communicating research result. However, majority of the Nigerian journals are still in print. Thus, this paper collected data from the Nigerian universities as the leading journal publishers in the country in order to bring out the situation of online journal publishing in the country. A semi-structured questionnaire was sent to all the universities; 28 responses were found to be valid for the analysis. In addition, the researcher analysed the content of Ajol and Doaj to discover the evidences for online journal publishing from Nigeria. And finally search for literature on the use of OJS in Nigeria was conducted. Consequently, it is discovered that majority of the university-based journals in Nigeria are in print only. The journals don’t leverage on the supporting services from Ajol programme. Thus, it is recommended that individual researchers, universities, journal publishers and research funders in Nigeria should recognise the importance and make use of online journal publishing platforms. It is also recommended that major commercial publishers should devise means of penetrating the journal publishing market in Nigeria.

The AJPE Journey Continues in Advancing Scholarly Excellence in Pharmacy Education Publications

This issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE) is the start of an empowering copublishing partnership of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) with Elsevier. The Journal, since 1937, has been committed to providing the highest quality of scholarly publications in all facets of pharmacy education. Our partnership with Elsevier is the next step in our continued journey to publishing outstanding scholarship in teaching and learning across the pharmacy Academy. The Journal will now have greater impact and outreach through the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection. Authors, reviewers, editors, and our pharmacy Academy will benefit through enhanced services available through the Elsevier innovative publishing platform.

Game Theory of Universal Health Coverage for Sustainable Development

1. Aklilu Endalamaw, Charles F Gilks, Fentie Ambaw, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold and Yibeltal Assefa. (2022). Universal Health Coverage for Antiretroviral Treatment:A Review. Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366504047_Universal_Health_Coverage_for_Antiretroviral_Treatment_A_Review#fullTextFileContent 2. Badia Leonardo and Marchioro Thomas. (2022). Game Theory a handbook of problems and exercises. Società Editrice Esculapio s.r.l . Italy. 3. Barachini Franz and Stary Christian. (2022). From digital twins to digital selves and beyond. Engineering and social models for a trans- humanist world. Springer. Switzlerland. 4. Elena Parilina, Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Georges Zaccour. (2022). Theory and Applications of Dynamic Games. A Course on Noncooperative and Cooperative Games Played over Event Trees. Springer. 5. Eoghan Brady a, Andy E. Carmone a, Sarthak Dasb, Raphael Hurleya, Maria Theresa Martinez Vergarac, and Address Malata. (2020). Harnessing the Power of Networks of Care for Universal Health Coverage Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346521559_Harnessing_the_Power_of_Networks_of_Care_for_Universal_Health_Coverage 6. Fan Bai. (2016). Uniqueness of Nash equilibrium in vaccination games. Retrieved from tandfonline website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17513758.2016.1213319?needAccess=true&role=button 7. Hossain Golam and Sabiruzzaman (2021). Health expenditure, universal health coverage and mortality of mother andchild in South East Asia. Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348906783_Health_expenditure_universal_health_coverage_and_mortality_of_mother_and_child_in_South_East_Asia#fullTextFileContent 8. Icddr,b. (2011). Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage. Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363761888_Science_to_Accelerate_Universal_Health_Coverage#fullTextFileContent 9. O. Orjingene a, Ugo Okoli a, A. Adetunji-Hassan b and M. Ganama. (2022). Universal Health Coverage: A Catalyst for Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363255711_Universal_Health_Coverage_A_Catalyst_for_Achieving_2030_Sustainable_Development_Goals#fullTextFileContent 10. Prince Agwu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Modest Mulenga. (2021). Improving service delivery at primary healthcare facilities for achievingUniversal Health Coverage: Examining the effects of insecurity in such fa-cilities in Enugu State, Nigeria Retrieved from Researchgate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351022237_universal-health-coverage-insecurity#fullTextFileContent 11. Sandhya Venkateswaran, Shruti Slaria3 and Sampriti Mukherjee. (2022). Political motivation as akey driver for universal health coverage. Retrieved from DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.922578 12. Sheryl L. Changa, Mahendra Piraveenan, Philippa PattisoncandMikhail Prokopenko. (2020). Game theoretic modelling of infectious disease dynamics and intervention methods: a review Retrieved from tandfonline website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17513758.2020.1720322?needAccess=true&role=button 13. Talwalkar P. (2016). The Joy of Game Theory: An Introduction to Strategic Thinking. Create space independent publishing platform. Standford University. UK. 14. Tjemkes Brian and Oli Mihalache. (2021). Transformative Strategies: Strategic Thinking in the Age of Globalization, Disruption, Collaboration and Responsibility. Routledge.USA. 15. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Index. (2023) Retieve from website https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=BWA~GMB~YEM 16. Yanhao Lin. (2022). Applications of Game Theory in Microeconomics. Retrieve online from website https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/EHSS/article/view/777 17. WHO. (2021). Tracking UHC 2021 Global Monitoring Report. Retrieve online from websitehttps://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/universal-health-coverage-(uhc)

A comparative study of the BFL Player and Amazon Prime Video: The new streaming distribution platforms for low-budget films

The global film market has long focused on more commercially viable films, which has kept many unknown or low-budget films out of the schedule. Films are shown in a variety of channels, including DVD, Pay-Tv and online video as well as cinemas. With the development of Internet and streaming services, there are many famous commercial Internet publishing platforms, BFI Player and Amazon Prime Video are two examples, and they are now developing online platforms for low budget films, which gives some excellent low budget films a chance to be released. This essay makes a comparative study of the BFL player and Amazon Video, analyzes how these two new streaming media distribution platforms of low-budget films help them become better from the aspects of resources, timeliness, price and user experience.

Scholarly Community towards Open Source

Scholarly communities are increasingly adopting open source practices in various areas including software, publishing and data analysis. The focus of this article is on the shift towards open source publication, specifically open access publication. Open access publication refers to the practice of making research articles and other scientific outputs freely available to the public through open access repositories or open-access journals. This practice has many benefits including increased visibility, improved access, enhanced collaboration, greater accountability, enhanced education and public understanding. The move towards open access has been driven by various factors including the proliferation of the internet, funder and policymaker requirements, concerns about high journal subscription costs and the availability of open access publishing platforms. Challenges to the adoption of open access include the need for a cultural shift and the potential for loss of income for some publishers. Despite these challenges, open access has the potential to transform the way that research is shared and disseminated, leading to greater impact and collaboration in the scientific community.

Open Sourcing Reuse

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are introducing and discussing the set of modular, open source writing, editing, annotating, and publishing software, tools, and platforms we have used

IMPROVING QUANTITATIVE COMPETENCY: INTEGRATING MATH ELEMENTS INTO MARKETING COURSES

ABSTRACT Quantitative skills are a highly-sought skillset for today’s graduates. However, students often misperceive marketing as a soft-skills discipline, leading to a crisis of confidence when faced with quantitative components within the discipline. The Quantitative Competency Development (QCD) innovation aligns with AACSB learning assurance standards, ensuring students develop quantitative competency in areas relevant to current business practices. QCD introduces an outcome-based learning process to incorporate valuable quantitative skills into any course. Through the use of an online publisher platform, students gain foundational quantitative knowledge. Class time is then used to reinforce knowledge and build technical skills using Excel. Finally, concept mastery is tested through formula-type exam questions within the LMS, which varies question inputs by student, resulting in each student needing to calculate his or her answer individually. Formulaic problems reduce the benefits of cheating in that values vary for each question and each student. As an added benefit, professors can easily identify students who upload exam questions online. Results show that students are motivated to learn the concepts and competency improvement is demonstrated. Challenges related to implementation are discussed, followed by an overview of the adaptability of the process throughout the marketing curricula. Guidance and consideration for developing formulaic questions in LMS systems is also provided.

Social crisis detection using Twitter based text mining-a machine learning approach

Social-media and blogs are increasingly used for social-communication, an idea and thought publishing platform. Public intentions, wisdom, problems, solutions, mental states are shared in social media. Text is being the best and the most common way to communicate over social networks. All kinds of data shared in social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Microblogs. People from different pursuance uses these media to publish thoughts and convey messages through text. Consequently, occurrences in social life are rapidly discussed in social blogs in daily manner. This work aims at discovering ongoing social crisis from the Twitter data. Text mining technique and sentiment analysis were applied to detect the current social crisis from the social sites. Twitter data were collected to identify the recent social crisis. Furthermore, the identified crisis was compared to reputed newspapers. A hybrid method used to detect recent social issues resulted nicely. However, our proposed analysis shows identifying rate 89%, 95%, 83%, 53%, and 98% for the top 5 identified crisis accordingly in the date between 27 February and 11 March 2020. The strategy used in this study for the detection of recent social crisis will contribute to the social life and findings of crisis will be eliminated easily.

Incentivise Mechanism for Authors and Readers with Blockchain

Abstract: With the advent of popularity of long form publishing of written media in the form of novels and graphics novels, there arises a need for a platform to incentivise authors to get constant, periodic feedback for their work, so that it is optimized for adaptations for mainstream media as well as a cult following in terms of content and character likability and relatability. Blockchain and its associated technologies have made transactions and tipping extremely easy, and with L2 chains like Polygon which have low transaction fees, combined with the immutability and security of smart contracts make for an excellent enabler for this industry. The following research paper seeks to use blockchain to create a publishing platform that enables an author to put out individual chapters and gain rapid feedback on it in the form of voting by the users on the next storyline, while readers make some money in return for their feedback.

اتجاهات التقنيات الناشئة والمكتبات

QScience.com is the innovative and collaborative, peer-reviewed, online publishing platform from Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press). It offers a fast and transparent Open Access scholarly publishing process, which is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global audience.

DECOLONIZING CREATIVITY: A CROWDSOURCING PROJECT ABOUT CREATIVITY AS SURVIVAL

Understanding creativity from a decolonial perspective means removing the focus from the individual as innovator (as well as its profit-oriented goal), and instead highlighting the ongoing networked relationships among people, technologies, and spaces that often occur with creative practices. This creative process is not concerned with the creation of new things. Rather, it is about the mobility and networking of resources that can improve lives and facilitate survival strategies. In order to understand how creative practices occur in non-traditional contexts outside the colonial Global North perspective, we have developed a PubPub repository to crowdsource examples of creativity. PubPub is an open-source, web publishing platform that prioritizes community-generated and knowledge sharing. It is a low-barrier entry method to share information and knowledge within one's community of learners—in our case, individuals interested in creative practices that occur outside traditional corporate and profit-oriented domains. In this presentation, we will describe the conceptualization and development of our online repository, focusing on how open science knowledge and crowdsourced information can help decolonize creative processes. Our project will accomplish four main goals: (1) explain this concept of creativity for a broad and non-academic audience, (2) share previous research and materials about this topic, (3) ask the audience to contribute to the collection, and (4) display the crowdsourced examples from the audience. In building our PubPub housing, we were especially interested in collecting publicly-identified instances of creativity to support the development and accessibility of a broad collection of examples found across the world.

Letter from the Editors

Letter from the editors, including a summary of articles in this issue, our move to a new publishing platform this summer, and a preview of our April call for Editorial Board members.

The Dutch Textile Trade Project and the Development of JHNA’s Digital Art History Capabilities

What started with a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to integrate the Dutch Textile Trade Project into the JHNA publishing platform grew into a broader digital art historical project. Strengthened by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to redesign and enrich the Dutch Textile Trade Project site while creating additional technical functionality for JHNA, the results benefit not only this textiles-focused issue but also future JHNA authors and readers alike.

Biomedical materials benefit health

Biomedical engineering is acclaimed as the most effective technological advancement—the stepping- stone toward better human health. An in-depth look into biomedical engineering reveals that emerging materials are recognized as the turbocharger for its progress and the source of innovation. For example, the application of advanced nanomaterials in drug delivery, bioimaging, gene therapy, and so on are pioneering new ways to diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases; tissue repair and organ regeneration are no longer dreams, but attainable miracles because of 3D bioprinted scaffold materials; flexible electronic materials and brain-computer interface chips remove barriers in human-computer interaction, enabling scientists to better interpret the mysteries of life. In addition, functional materials construct diverse diagnosis and treatment equipment, such as microfluidics and major medical devices. Evolving from the deep integration of materials science and biomedical engineering, this popular and innovative research field will enormously benefit people's life and health. Upholding the philosophy of “BME Materials Benefit Health,” BMEMat was launched under the auspices of Shandong University and Wiley. With a commitment to building the most valuable international platform to share knowledge and information, BMEMat covers all research advances related to functional materials for biomedical applications. The article types include Original Articles, Review Articles, Editorials, Short Communications, and Letters to the Editor (author guidelines are available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/27517446/homepage/author-guidelines). BMEMat adopts an open-access publishing model and will expand the coverage of Wiley's current materials science journals into biomedical engineering. BMEMat creates an active community by attracting interdisciplinary research in biomedical engineering and materials science. Our professional editorial board comprises the most experienced scientists in the BME field. The Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Hong Liu from State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, is the winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund and is among the world's highly-cited scientists. We have nine Associate Editors on board to assist the Editor-in-Chief to expediate the peer review process: Prof. Xiaogang Liu from the National University of Singapore (Singapore), Prof. Wenbo Bu from Fudan University (China), Prof. Chuanbin Mao from University of Oklahoma (USA), Prof. Fan Yi from Shandong University (China), Prof. Andreu Cabot from Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (Spain), Prof. Xiaohu Gao from University of Washington, Seattle (USA), Prof. Angus Johnston from Monash University (Australia), Prof. Xingjie Liang from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), and Prof. Xuebin Yang from University of Leeds (UK). The elite editorial team with their diversity of insights and expertise will provide efficient peer review services and post-acceptance processes to our authors and reviewers, and present our readers with the most important, in-depth, and frontier basic and applied research achievements. We sincerely look forward to welcoming you—as a reader, author, reviewer or commenter—to engage with our journal. We believe that BMEMat will become one of the leading international publishing platforms in the interdisciplinary area of material science, biochemistry, biology, biomedical engineering, and medicine, by providing information on the most important advances in this field to a broader group of researchers and engineers from both academia and industry. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

2023 and the post-FIFA World Cup era

QScience.com is the innovative and collaborative, peer-reviewed, online publishing platform from Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press). It offers a fast and transparent Open Access scholarly publishing process, which is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global audience.

Pelatihan Alih Media Karya Tulis Ilmiah Menjadi Buku Digital untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Profesionalisme Guru

This community service program aims to improve the skills of teachers in transferring scientific writing media into digital books by utilizing the issues digital publishing platform. Implementing this service used training and technical assistance for teachers at Madrasah Ibtidayah (MI) Manggarupi, Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) Manggarupi, and SMA PGRI Sungguminasa starting from creating an ISSUU account to publishing works. The instrument for evaluating this activity used the Context, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) model. The training questionnaire was given via Google Form and analyzed descriptively. The result of this service activity was an increase in the ability of teachers to publish their scientific writings through digital publishing platforms. Teachers experienced the benefits of using a digital edition publishing platform to support school learning activities. The platform could also be a forum for students in these schools to publish their writings and works.

Application of Meta-Gaming Concept to the Publishing Platform: Analysis of the Steam Games Platform

The digital marketplace has rapidly grown, transitioning the market of video games from physical localized experiences to more networked, expanded, virtual spaces. With a highly competitive business market, platform governance policy allows for the emergence of rapidly growing publishing platforms for digital video games such as the Steam platform. This study demonstrated the importance of the meta-gaming of a platform based on the Steam platform; 18,658 Steam-listed games were acquired and analyzed from the Steam Store, Steam Spy, and Steam achievement databases. A detailed analysis was conducted where key research questions were formulated concerning the game information. This study found that digital badging (i.e., achievements) increases players’ engagement with the publishing platform with good auxiliary data (such as types, rating, releases, and prices). Based on such findings, an opportunity for a new business model is envisioned.

Use of Videos by Health Care Professionals for Procedure Support in Acute Cardiac Care: A Scoping Review.

Cardiology procedures are often life-saving and time-critical, but some are so infrequent that health care staff may have rarely encountered them in practice or need to refresh their skills rapidly. Videos demonstrating procedures have the potential to assist health care professionals and support safe patient care. This scoping review explores the research literature involving the use of video by health care professionals in hospitals. To identify what is known from research regarding the use of video to support clinical procedures in hospitals or health care facilities. The Joanna Briggs Institute Scoping review methodology guided our systematic search of peer-reviewed evidence related to video use to support procedures in a hospital or health care facility. Data sources included the electronic databases: ProQuest, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline, Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), Scopus, and PubMed. Seventeen (17) studies that met the inclusion criteria were included in the review, all published between 2012 and 2022. Since 2005, YouTube has become the dominant platform for publishing or sourcing videos related to clinical procedures. Studies to date can be summarised under five themes: 1) video content and purpose, 2) target audience, 3) video hosting site-internal websites versus YouTube, 4) curated versus original 'homegrown' video content, and 5) video development process. Research on the development and utility of videos to support clinical procedures is emerging, with the ability to host videos on platforms such as YouTube becoming more accessible in recent years. All videos were designed to enhance health care professionals' existing knowledge and skills within their scope of practice. The available literature suggests that video can be a valuable clinical resource for both simple and skilled procedures. Video resources can help clinicians perform or assist with rare procedures, providing 'just in time' patient safety prompts and information.

Pro-Life Champion: The Untold Story of Monsignor Philip J. Reilly and His Helpers of God’s Precious Infants by Frederick W. Marks

Reviewed by: Pro-Life Champion: The Untold Story of Monsignor Philip J. Reilly and His Helpers of God’s Precious Infants by Frederick W. Marks Robert N. Karrer Pro-Life Champion: The Untold Story of Monsignor Philip J. Reilly and His Helpers of God’s Precious Infants. By Frederick W. Marks. (np: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. Pp. 204. $29.75. ISBN: 1545234973, 9781545234976). Frederick Marks is an accomplished historian who has explored the nuances of the foreign policy of selected American presidents. Here in Pro-Life Champion Marks travels a different path, describing the inspiring life of pro-life activist, Monsignor Philip Reilly. Part biography, part apology, Marks’s 2017 book is a welcome addition to the growing list of memoirs of leaders published in recent years. Marks’s book contains a few blemishes. The first third is somewhat disjointed with the author jumping from topics. It is not as chronologically arranged as expected. Because Reilly’s ministry is sidewalk counseling, Marks draws inspiration from activist groups like Pro-Life Action League and American Life League while totally ignoring larger organizations like the National Right to Life Committee and Americans United for Life despite their superior roles in helping to enact pro-life laws and leadership in the movement. Having expressed the negatives, the positives far outweigh any deficiencies. Philip Reilly is pictured almost larger than life. A man of humble beginnings, Reilly became a priest, a teacher, and later a high school principal in New York City. Even while administrator at Cathedral Prep, in October, 1989 he formed Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, a pro-life ministry that centers on prayer outside abortion clinics, not Operation Rescue-style civil disobedience. Marks explains that Reilly formed Helpers to counter the disastrous image presented by “pro-life” terrorists whose exploits included bombings, arson, and later murder at abortion clinics, a strategy that was not only detrimental to the movement’s peaceful message, but counter-productive in trying to win the hearts and minds of the American [End Page 222] public. Reilly’s many dedicated and committed Helpers, armed with prayers and rosaries, do not block clinic entrances and are not arrested. Several times a week in all kinds of weather, they counsel women not to abort their babies. Much to the frustration of abortion clinic personnel, Reilly’s Helpers lead many women to choose life for their babies. Monsignor Reilly traveled the world preaching his message of prayer and compassion and Helpers expanded internationally. Here in America 60 chapters have formed in 37 states. Marks provides many historical events in the final third of the book. The June, 1990 prayer vigil at New York’s largest abortion clinic included 1,000 Helpers. Another vigil in June, 1992 featured Reilly and Cardinal O’Connor and thousands more, an event dutifully reported by the New York Times the following day. In 1996 another clinic sued Reilly and Helpers for $117 million. Reilly won the case. In 2001 the New York City Council tried to pass a buffer-zone restriction on Helpers. Again, Reilly diffused the effort with an impassioned statement. Reilly, while preaching peace and love, holds strong convictions about those who advocate for abortion. He has little regard for pro-choice Catholic politicians who vote for abortion rights, endorsing the policy of denying them Communion unless they repent. Marks also notes that Reilly believes America is in deep spiritual decline and quotes Bishop Fulton Sheen with an appropriate comment about a decaying civilization and man’s unwillingness to see his own wickedness. Marks gives the reader a glimpse of the Monsignor’s character through many quotes. In challenging abortion’s legality, Reilly said, “Evil is evil and good is good whether the law permits it or not. You cannot make evil good by legislating it. Neither can you make good evil by making it illegal.” Seeing victory in the future, Marks quotes Reilly, “A culture of life will be restored,” while referring to abortion-rights as “the tree of death.” Pro-Life Champion applauds Monsignor Reilly’s heroic life and his Helpers’ dedication: lives saved, women restored, God victorious. Robert N. Karrer Kalamazoo, MI Copyright © 2023 The Catholic University of...

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