The Scola BookStore module simplifies and enables online e-publishing and merchandising of academic materials such as Books, Monographs, Journals, Festschrifts, etc. produced by staff, departments, and faculties of your institution community, integrated with larger global marketplaces, like Amazon.com, Springer Press, Wiley Publishers, etc.

Production of printed material and merchandising of academic works can be a daunting task for most institutions. Dealing with copyrights, attribution, printing, payment gateways, promotion, order fulfilment, listing titles with major publishers, and revenue payments to authors requires professional expertise for successful implementation.

Using Scola BookStore module, your institution is empowered with a one stop platform enabling publication, merchandising, promotion of academic output, and boosting internal generated revenue, while giving financial incentives to staff, departments, and faculties to publish and merchandise their academic products. Furthermore, your institution will experience increased visibility and academic ranking as content and materials reviewed and commented on by readers are available online.

FEATURES

1. Easy to use collaborative manuscript development platform for prospective authors to develop, review, and publish their works.

2. Customizable templates for publication a wide array of materials including books, conference papers, monographs, journals, festschrifts, etc.

3. Artificial intelligence enabled editor for providing grammatical, tone, style, clarity, cross referencing, corrections during manuscript development.

4. Automatic generation of ISBN and ISSN numbers and registration with Nigerian National Library.

5. Integration with national and international grant sponsors, and TETFund Academic Manuscript Development policies.

6. Integration with online research resources from Academia.net, CiteSteer, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, etc.

7. Online access to editors, reviewers, and other experts to contribute and promote academic materials in publication.

8. Online storefront enabling listing, reviewing, commenting, social media promotion, order processing, payment integration, and fulfilment.

9. Royalty attribution and settlement for authors, publishers, and promoters.

10. Access to printer marketplace with access to local and international printers to produced finished works.

11. Integrated with various payment processing gateways such as Remitta, PayStack, Stripe, and FlutterWave for collection of payments in compliance with TSA and other regulatory requirements.

12. Integrated issue tracking for complaints from students during transcript generation processing.

13. Generation of administrative and sales reports for authors, institutions, and publishers.

Integration of logistics providers for mailing and fulfilment of orders via secure email, DHL, FedEx, NIPOST worldwide.