The Library Advisory Committee in association with Department of Computer Applications organized a one day workshop on "Scopus & Mendeley: Tools for Empowering Research" on 21 st September 2019 at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall.
Prof Shivaram B S, Information Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratory (CSIR-NAL), Bengaluru was the Resource Person of the workshop.Dr Felcy D'Souza, Librarian introduced the resource person and highlighted the objectives of the workshop i.e., to empower the research scholars and faculty members to keep track of the current developments in their research/interest and to organize their references during their research study or writing papers for publications in the jouals/conferences/seminars .
There were three sessions namely, Publication Metrics for Researchers, Information Discovery: Tips, Tools & Techniques and hands on training session on Reference Management Tool-Mendeley by Prof Shivaram B S.
The topics covered in the first session are: Importance of publication metrics for researchers & NIRF ranking of the Institute, sources of publications metrics, citation analysis, Joual Impact Factor, author metrics, H-index calculation, analysis of citation profile, author profile and publication profile of the Institute by SCOPUS.
In the second session the topics covered were as follows; Joual selection tools for publishing research work, research language, author name ambiguity, copy right & its infringement etc.
The Third session was on hands on experience on Reference Management Tool: Mendeley.
The above sessions concluded with an open discussion and feedback from participants. At the end as a token of love and appreciation the Resource Person was presented with a memento by Ms Sumangala N, Chairperson, Library & Leaing Committee. Ms Soumya Asst Prof and Coordinator of the workshop proposed the vote of thanks. The programme was compered by Ms Avila Pinto, Asst Prof, E&C Department.
A total of 65 research scholars and faculty members from SJEC and exteal research scholars pursuing research under SJEC Research Centre participated in the workshop.
