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Faculty Members attend a webinar on ‘Improving Research Planning at Technical Institutes’ co-organized by Elsevier & VTU Consortium

01-May-2020
Faculty Members attend a webinar on ‘Improving Research Planning at Technical Institutes’ co-organized by Elsevier & VTU Consortium

With a view to improve research and make a greater impact in the research world - by being more informed, more effective and more efficient, Faculty members attended a webinar on “Improving Research Planning at Technical Institutes” which was co-organised by Elsevier and VTU Consortium on 29th April, 2020. The webinar focussed on use of tools like ScienceDirect, Scopus and Mendely for improving the research quality.
One of the key speakers of the session, Dr. P.V. Konnur, Adviser –VTU Consortium, Chairman of SLBS Committee, President of LIS Academy, Bengaluru and Member of Syndicate, Kuvempu University shared insights on the quantity and quality of research papers in India and other countries. He also spoke about how Indian research has improved after the implementation of VTU Consortium.
Another notable speaker of the session, Dr. Shivaram BS, Governing Council & Steering Committee member of VTU E-Resource consortium and team leader of digital archiving group at ICAST, CSIR-NAL, spoke on usage of Mendeley to manage the references and its use in inserting citations and bibliography in research.
Ms. Cigdem Bildirici, Regional Director, Inside Accounts – Elsevier emphasised on how Elsevier is supporting researcher and academic communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr. Vishal Gupta, Customer Consultant, South Asia, Elsevier highlighted on the importance of Elsevier in giving better results for research and finding next step in research area with ScienceDirect and Scopus.

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