AP2014: Research, Publishing & Open Access @ NTU

Research, Publishing & Open Access @ NTU

1. Developing Your Strategy for Successful Scientific Publishing

We live in a “Publish-or-Perish” academic world and it is crucial to develop a plan to perform good research and to publish the results in an established peer reviewed journal. This talk will provide some insights into the common obstacles to academic publishing and the plans for developing a strategy to achieve a robust publication record. Getting a head start in academic publishing is crucial and such advantage can serve academics for the rest of their career. This talk will also cover how a young academic could develop an effective plan to achieve a cogent body of publications, based on the results of research and on fruitful collaborations.

Speaker: Khor Khiam Aik (Prof)
Director
NTU Research Support Office and Bibliometrics Analysis

2. Participating in Open Access

The goal of open access is to make the content of publications arising from publicly funded research freely and widely available to the public. It relies on inter-dependent relationship between funding bodies, universities, researchers, libraries and publishers. The research work of faculty and staff will have much wider exposure by participating in open access, leading to greater opportunity for discovery, collaboration and recognition. This presentation will describe how NTU Library supports our academic staff to participate in open access. It will also highlight key developments in open access that will have an impact on the world of scholarly communication.