Author Workshop On Scholarly Publishing
held at Senate Hall, Swatntrata Bhawan , BHU on 24th September 2012 under
the Information Literacy
Program of Central Library, Banaras Hindu University in collaboration
with John Wiley.
The program was inaugurated by Prof. S. C. Lakhotia,
Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University with Prof. O N Srivastava,
Emeritus Professor, BHU. On this occasion Prof. Gary C Schoenwolf, Prof. Kurt H. Albertine, Dr. A K
Srivastava, and Mr. Ashish Sood were also present.
Welcome
address was given by Dr. A
K Srivastav, University Librarian, BHU. He spoke about library
developments and future plan of action regarding information literacy, coupled
with continuous training and learning programs.
Prof. Gary C Schoenwolf, discussed : Why Publish? How to choose your
journal wisely? He emphasized in
his lecture that research article should be published in the journals having
high impact factor. Because theirin journal are more reliable and read by
maximum readers.
Prof. Albertine in his lecture emphasized the need
of clear and logical writing which will provide reputation to an author in his
respective field of specialization.
Prof. S.C. Lakhotia emphasized that research is only
useful if it is communicated.
Prof. O N
Srivastava, Presided over the function and in his presidential remarks he
raised various ethical, academic and editorial issues related to international
publications. He also said that Dr.
C.V. Raman got the novel prize through the research publication.
In the last Mr. Ashish Sood, Regional
Manager, India Institutional Sales, Wiley – India extended vote of thanks. The
program was conducted by Dr. Vivekanand Jain, Deputy Librarian, BHU.
On
this occasion : Dr. M Anandamurugan, Dr. Sanjiv Saraf, Dr. D K Singh, Dr. G C Kendadamath, Dr. A P
Singh (Head,DLIS) Mr. L M P Singh (Ex-University Librarian) Mr. Ram Kumar Dangi, Mr. Anil Agrawal, Dr. Rajesh Singh, Dr.
Jawahar Lal, Dr. Suchita Singh were also present.
Above
200 participants from amongst the teachers and researchers from the faculty of Medical
Sciences, Science, Agriculture Science and Indian Institute of Technology
participated in the workshop. Lively discussion took place on ethical issues in
scholarly publication.
(Dr. Vivekanand Jain)
Deputy Librarian , BHU
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