[LIS-Forum] Research Writing and Publication- Training Programme

[Francis Jayakanth]

From: fgct at socio.org.uk <fgct at socio.org.uk>
Sent: 11 December 2019 22:37

Workshop on Preparing Quality Research Writing and Improving Research Impact
January 03-04, 2020
Vellalar College, Erode. Tamilnadu
http://dirf.org/training.html

Call For Participation

Writing a good research paper needs learning skills and gaining experience. The available data about Indian research papers reveal that a very large number of papers are rejected in highly scholarly journals. There are many reasons for such a poor state of the environment. An article in Current Science highlighted the causes of rejection of scientific papers produced in the Third world countries. It includes lack of knowledge of scientific research, poor writing skills, language issues, absence of novelty in research and so on. If researchers are directed in the right way of writing good pieces of research, it may increase the level of Indian research publications. Realizing this value, a training workshop is planned for two days at the Vellalar College for Women, Erode.

The proposed training workshop addresses the following issues.

The ways of producing good research and writing high-level papers
Gain exposure for creating new approaches and solving research issues
Understanding the requirements of a good paper
The characteristics of a good scientific reporting
The approaches to understand a system of quality writing
The content of a good research, good review and revision

These issues can be explained to Indian academic researchers, particularly the young ones. Focusing the researchers on such issues will be possible by orienting them in training sessions. A training programme can be a model to carry out this plan. The following themes will be more purposeful.

How to produce qualitative research publication?
How to reflect the research carried out through the publication?
What are the measures for research impact?
What is the best way to disseminate research?
How to structure the research publication?
How to assess the reviewed publication?
What is indexed research?
How to integrate the research in the process of global review and indexing?
How to increase the research publication quality and record high research productivity?
How to improve English language presentation and proof-read the language without language experts
How to find collaborators and form a collaborative network in research

The above issues are just a few examples of the issues focused on the researchers. Young researchers need to be motivated to generate high-quality research. They need to be focused on global reviewed and indexed research.

The program will also address the issues such as Information access pattern, Research collaboration, strategies for generating good pieces of research and improving research quality.
This program will enable the researchers to understand the research publication process and to
participate in the global research network. The programme will discuss the ways to optimize the
research publication activities and the structure of research publications, review and indexing process, methods of generating good publications, demonstration of global indexing databases, research networks and other citation and evaluation metrics. The programme will have presentations, illustrations and discussions. The program will also have an exclusive session with interaction and discussions on ‘academic profiling with research publications and citation metrics’. The second session will have a presentation on case studies and illustrations in various subjects and domains. The participants can send draft papers and the papers will be discussed for good writing.

Training Session Faculty

The proposed programme will be addressed by eminent and experienced international researchers and information scientists. The following speakers have confirmed their participation as of now.

Prof. P. Pichappan
Director
Digital Information Research Labs.
Ilford, UK & Chennai, India

Prof. S. Sivasubramanian
Former Vice-Chancellor
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore-641 046

Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar
Library Director
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Saudi Arabia

Program Structure

In the morning, there will be a brief opening program for 20 minutes. After the opening program, there
is a coffee-break. After the coffee break, there will be a lengthy presentation. In the afternoon there will
be illustrations and practical examples.

The participants are encouraged to send their draft papers before December 25, 2019 in the online
submission link - http://www.dline.info/ws/openconf/openconf.php
The draft paper will be reviewed
and discussed on the second day of the workshop.

Who can participate?

The proposed training session is mainly for young researchers, academicians & scientists from Colleges,
Universities, Research Laboratories and Scientific Agencies. Interested administrators and librarians can
also participate.

The application for registration to the work shop should be submitted online at -
https://forms.gle/67uddeaZ1TSgn37L8

For further details
M. Sivamani
Librarian and Organizing Chair
Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous), Erode-12
Phone: 0424-2244107, Mobile: 9360563334
library at vcw.ac.in<mailto:library at vcw.ac.in>