Murtala Ismail Adakawa

• Master of Library and Information Science
• Bayero University Kano

This paper explores AI’s role in scholarly communication from different perspectives. It begins by examining how universities contributed to the development of AI and integrated it into teaching, learning, and research. As the digital economy grows, AI is influencing many aspects of human life. Different countries and funding agencies use various a...

This study aimed to test the hypothesis that the use of theories in open access resources during the COVID-19 pandemic would be greater than in copyrighted resources. Using the Scopus database from August 18-28, 2023, the search terms “COVID-19,” “Coronavirus,” “SARS-CoV-2,” and “2019-nCoV” retrieved 511,920 results, of which 17,487 were selected....

This study conducted a scientometric analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim of providing a foundation for developing a general theory of pandemics from a scholarly communications perspective. To achieve this, the study sought to answer a single question: How do knowledge, innovation, and environment relate to one another during a pandemic?...

This chapter investigated the dynamics of studies on preventive dentistry in the digital age from 1983-2023. The search for relevant studies took place on 14/03/2024. The search strategy used was “oral health” AND “preventive dentistry” OR “digital dentistry” OR “digital oral health”. In order to prevent duplication, 2,000 results from 1983-2023 we...

This chapter investigates scholarly communication theories used in preventive dentistry and digital technology. Researchers differ in the approaches they look at a problem, which is why a single problem can be studied from different perspectives leading to different conclusions. The study used Scopus to retrieve 29585 documents and restricted to 5-...

This research investigates scholarly communication theories used during the COVID-19 pandemic as a strategy for building effective disaster-resilience infrastructure. The study employed scientometric and content analysis to understand the behavior of data in this regard. For scientometric analysis part, using Scopus from 16-23rd January 2024 employ...

Este artículo explora la integración de la IA en la comunicación académica para mejorar las capacidades cognitivas humanas. La concepción de la comunicación hombre-máquina (CMM), que considera las tecnologías basadas en la IA no como objetos interactivos, sino como sujetos comunicativos, plantea cuestiones más filosóficas en la comunicación académi...

The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY is an open access, double-blind, peer-reviewed, international refereed journal that publishes articles resulting from research and reflection on different fields of education. This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available, at no charge to the user o...

The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY is an open access, double-blind, peer-reviewed, international refereed journal that publishes articles resulting from interdisciplinary research and reflection on human development, sustainable technological innovations, green economy, social justice, climate change, public health, i...

This paper explores greenization of computing for sustainable development. It attempts to look at the concept of greening computing from top-bottom approach as economic and socio-technological advancements persist, so do problems and contradictions become increasingly conspicuous. Generation of energy and its dissipation to environment has always b...

The paper explores integrating AI into scholarly communication for enhanced human cognitive abilities. The conception of human-machine communication (HMC) approach that regards AI-based technologies not as interactive objects but communicative subjects throws issues that are more philosophical in scholarly communication. It is a known fact that, th...

The aim of this research is to investigate the journal inclusion practices of the UGC-CARE list, particularly Group-1Journals in the Kannada Language. Group-2 journals are indexed in globally recognized databases such as Web of Science,Scopus, etc. Journals indexed in Group-1 category are mainly Indian journals published in various Indian languages...

The current paper aims at reviewing information security and cybersecurity in digitally transformed e-commerce landscapes. COVID-19 pandemic has led to the disruption of technology and met several businesses unprepared to take off technological transformation consequently, jeopardized many clients into untold hardships and loss. The lockdown period...

The current paper attempts to give a different look at plagiarism in the light of digital information. Different issues surrounding plagiarism were highlighted and possible solutions were formulated. It is a commonplace nowadays that, different researchers blame plagiarists without taking into account the economic and social aspects of the anti-pla...

p>It is a review paper aimed at raising the awareness of risk management officers working in industries.</p

This study aimed at investigating the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries. Many technologies are finding their ways into the domain of everyday life of library service provision where these information systems serve as a window to many emerging technologies for aligning the repeated services and meeting the endless needs of us...

This research aimed at determining the growth of deposition of preprints on servers by Indian researchers during COVID-19 pandemic. In the pre-pandemic period, the dominant server was arXiv upon which research from physics and other related domains have been the most predominant depositors. When the pandemic erupted and the need to share research f...

This research investigates the pattern of reviews of bibliometric studies on radiation physics in India. The field of radiation physics has grown so much that bibliometric or content analysis alone is insufficient to study the emerging themes in the domain-specific area. The paper employed qualitative and quantitative methodology to analyze papers...

This paper critically explores green washing and green criminology in relation to the roles information literacy and marketing can play in creating awareness on the parts of company manufacturers and product consumers on these issues. Millennial are highly associated with smartphones and Covid-19 pandemic has strengthened this relationship. Green w...

This paper aims at exploring intellectual property in relation to patent in medicine in India. Knowledge economy is the engine upon which development and creativity depends that has been instrumental in differentiating countries as developed or underdeveloped. India, being a member of World Trade Organization (WTO) has recognized the importance att...

The purpose of this study is to review scholarly communication practice and research collaboration pattern of scholars during COVID-19 pandemic. The study used systematic review to consult literature extensively. This is to ensure creating a firm foundation for addressing emerging epidemics or pandemics and to provide an enabling ground for theory...

Previous researchers have failed to situate seemingly important components of contemporary real-life truth in the mainstream of investigations. As new modes of transferring knowledge, accessing, and retrieving information emerge, resources and technology advance, and webinars are becoming one of the easiest and cheapest ways to reach the public, sy...

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This paper explores transforming library and research services for a promising scholarly world. Attaining scholarly world has been the dream of many stakeholders fueled and exemplified by open access movement, open educational resources, open software, and indirectly intellectual property that encourages innovations. The epicenter of this transform...

The life on earth depends on the ecosystem functions that strengthen ecosystem services provision thereby maintaining a balance between tangible and intangible ecosystem factors. Maintaining this equilibrium is challenging that calls for innovations to protect and sustain the ecosystem. To meet this challenge, literature has to capture the previous...

This paper explores the need for including uncertainties in developing plans for library services provision. Covid-19 pandemic has challenged almost all facets of human endeavors necessitating using non-conventional means of satisfying users. This implies the necessity for library administrators and workers to function in designing templates that w...

This chapter explores scholarly communication practices and strategies in institutions of higher learning in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase visibility and reputation. For long, it has been acknowledged that foundations of institutions of higher learning rest upon creating and disseminating knowledge, which serves as an engine for scientific progres...

This paper investigated the text using strategies of doctoral students at Southern universities of India from 2015-2019. It is becoming a commonplace these days those doctoral students borrow wordings from original authors without proper acknowledgement. This practice is rampant as students tend to copy wholly or partially texts from original autho...

This paper examines the impact of open access in similarity index of five (5) doctoral theses retrieved from a university in Shodhganga. To ensure anonymity of both the university and authors, ethical considerations were strictly adhered to. Normalization of the downloaded theses was ensured through running Turnitin against chapters of the theses r...

This paper explores interconnectedness of library and information services provision as a community strategy for the prevention and control of zoonotic diseases. Methodology used in reviewing the literature was systematic review. In the review, Akerloff's (1970) theory of information asymmetry as discussed by Afzal, (2015, p.124-135) was used as a...

This chapter explores metadata technology integration as a panacea for effective learning in the 21st century libraries. The high influx of information resources into libraries necessitated a shift from printed to digitally web-based form of preserving and describing information, which affected users' access to information. This implies direct invo...

E-learning has received considerable attention from educators and researchers, but its adoption and use in Nigerian higher education institutions are not encouraging. Several studies have reported a variety of barriers that affect the successful implementation of e-learning, such as non-existing operational policies, financial constraints, poor int...

This book was born in the classroom, written by undergraduate and postgraduate thesis students from different universities around the world. The authors address diverse topics such as digital humanities, library information services, information asymmetry, digital preservation, D-Space, editorial processes, scientific communication, social media me...

Libraries across the globe are adopting technologies for enhancing their capabilities and meeting the information needs of their users on demand and expectations. This makes scholarly communication a cornerstone in speeding up the discovery process where metadata plays a vital role in this regard. Unfortunately, this makes data goldmine for cybercr...

This paper explores inclusive library and information services for national development. In the paper, several issues bordering gender equality and women's ways of knowing have been highlighted. The theory of women's knowing was used as a lens to guide the study. Several programs are designed in libraries but the information service provision does...

In a period of economic turmoil, resource scarcity and increased competitiveness in the attraction and retention of students, the ability to demonstrate the value gained by utilizing library services is becoming increasingly important. In Nigeria, the most leading deliberation in education spectrum nowadays is the issue of poor construing values wh...

Scholars engage in intellectual enquiries which is why they are considered to be the cornerstones of any research geared towards solving societal problems or testing phenomena. This makes their research outputs needed to be readily available for public consumption. For quite long, scholars are rated based on the number of scholarly contributions th...

Scholars engage in intellectual enquiries which is why they are considered to be the cornerstones of any research geared towards solving societal problems or testing phenomena. This makes their research outputs needed to be readily available for public consumption. For quite long, scholars are rated based on the number of scholarly contributions th...

This paper explores the relevance of Piaget's theory and school libraries for enhancing academic performance among children from a cognitive perspective. The paper is largely theoretical and conceptual and tries to enumerate the origin of Piaget's theory within the library and information science. Three cognitive paradigms have been identified in l...

The emergence of technological infrastructures in the 21 st Century has drastically changed the way students sought, accessed and used information. The Internet, Mobile technologies and other hand-held devices introduces students to abundant information. This trend has invariably posed a threat to libraries and librarians. This study therefore, inv...

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One hundred Gram negative bacterial isolates were collected from a private diagnostic center and identified by subjecting the isolates to biochemical tests using standard procedures. Confirmed Enterobacteriaceae isolates were further subjected to screening for extended spectrum â-lactamases (ESBLs) production using Clinical Laboratory Standards Ins...

Powdered leaves of Annona squamosa (L.) were extracted with ethanol and methanol using percolation method. The extracts were tested for antimicrobial activity against clinical isolates of confirmed extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus specie using disc diffusion method. The extracts were furthe...