Hands on training would be given to the participants.The duration of the training is 2 days.This project is part of the consultancy programmme offered by the library.The total fees for the two day training is two thousand rupees(2000/-).

Module 1

Academic communication in the digital environment: new perspectives

• Academic plagiarism

• Plagiarism

• Recent headlines on plagiarism
• Forms of plagiarism
• Note taking-(summary,paraphrase,quotation)
• Note-taking-caveman style
• Activity session-find plagiarism from the given newsitems
• Detecting plagiarism in articles/writeups
• Plagiarism detection softwares-overview
• Article generators-scigen

Module 2

Bibliographic reference management software

• Reference management using MS word-2007,bib me,myendnote web

• Mendeley,zotero etc

Module 3

Collaboration tools for academic community

• Google docs

• Delicious
• Dropbox
• Overview of academic networks:
• Knimbus,academia.Edu,mynetresearch, coursecracker, researchgate,nature network,epernicus network,geazle etc
• Resources for academic community
• Google books
• Freebooks-freebookspot,library genesis,world public library etc
• Online thesis archives

• Open access repositories

  Module 4

  Searching and researching on the world wide web: an advanced approach

• Effective use of social networks for academic communication
• Personal web sites and self promotion
• Publication of scholarly output in www outlets
• Curation and sharing of content
• Effective use of discussion forums
• Academic blogging