Nowadays, getting published in Scopus / Web of Science indexed journals adds status to a researcher,
however getting published in these journals can be a researcher’s nightmare.
Scholarly communication is the process of academicians, scholars and
researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are
available to the wider academic community and beyond. Traditionally, scholarly
communication is found in the formal literature – in journal articles,
conference proceedings, book chapters and books. Today, the landscape is
changing dramatically with the introduction of Internet.
Keeping this in mind,
the Library and Information Centre in association with Research, Development
and Innovation Cell of Dnyanprassark Mandal recently organised a talk on the
topic of Scholarly Communication. The resource person was Dr Murari P Tapaswi,
former Librarian of NIO and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) of Goa University. In
all, 70 faculty members participated in this talk.
A
publication in the prestigious / reputed journals is important for the
academicians, working in the colleges and universities. But due to predatory
print and open access journals, finding the suitable journal for the
publication of the article is somewhat tricky, it needs lot of information and
searching skills, such as whether the particular journal is published by fly by
night publisher, is it recognised by the UGC, is it indexed in the Web of
Science or Scopus database or not? Writing is easy, but publishing in a good
academic journal is the problem as it invites identifying which journal is good
or bad for publishing the articles. He demonstrated how to identify the impact
factor of the journals available in different databases, what are the quality
criteria? How to match your manuscript and other important aspects were
revealed in this session. Further, the resource person emphasised about the how
predatory journals are acting without having proper mechanism of Impact factor,
he also cautioned the participants about publishing in such journals as it will
not fetch any API score for the promotion of the teachers.
