Webinar on scholarly publications, plagiarism and research held at UHF

The Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni organized a webinar on Scholarly Publishing, Plagiarism and Research Metrics on Wednesday. The webinar was organized as part of the Faculty Development Programme under the National Agricultural Higher Education Project by the university in collaboration with the Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalist of India.
UHF Vice-Chancellor Dr Parvinder Kaushal was the Chief Guest on the occasion. Dr KK Raina, coordinator of the NAHEP (IDP) project of the university welcomed the Chief Guest and the Guest speaker Dr K Veeranjaneyulu, Librarian & Head, NIT Warangal.
Congratulating the organisers, Dr Kaushal said that the topic is of utmost importance for educational institutions and the students and researchers need to be regularly apprised about it. He said that the university can utilize the time to prepare for writing in quality journals with good citation so that the global rankings of the university can be improved.
Dr Veeranjaneyulu gave a detailed presentation about how to write a good paper and get it published in quality journals with a high impact factor. Other topics covered during the webinar were various styles of publications, software tools, citation analysis, plagiarism and how to avoid it. The webinar was attended by Director Research Dr Rakesh Gupta, Deans Dr ML Bhardwaj, Dr YC Gupta and Dr Bhupender Gupta; Dr KK Kandpal, CTO ICAR IVRI, Dr Kailash D Tandel, Librarian, NAU Navsari, Yashoda Negi, Assistant Librarian and the scientists and students of several universities.