From research to publication: upcoming seminars for PhD students
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EPFL Library offers training to young researchers, in order to help them master advanced searching in specialised resources, understand the process of scientific publishing and reuse articles in their thesis without the risk of plagiarism.
Module 1: Stay tuned! Being up-to-date with your research topic
Various questions relating to the search for scientific information are addressed: define a question and translate it into machine language, identify relevant sources, set up a watch in his field of study, use a bibliographic management tool.
Upcoming session: March 22nd, 2016 (8:30-12:30)
Module 2: Empower your writing process
This practice-oriented module deals with the scientific writing process and addresses aspects such as copyright, collaborative work and publication visibility. Please note that structured writing and the use of scientific English are not addressed in this course.
Upcoming session: April 7th, 2016 (8:30-12:30)
Module 3: Smart publishing
This module helps PhD student to understand how scientific publishing functions: choice of a publication model (traditional, Green/Gold Open Access, hybrid), submission, peer-reviewing process and dissemination of the paper.
Upcoming session: March 16th, 2016 (8:30-12:30)