New online course "Scientific communication in the digital age"

Dear scientists, employees and students of NUS named after. adm. Makarova! We invite you to take part in a new online course "Scientific communication in the digital age". It has begun 2 March 2020 p. New topics are added every week, you can connect at any time, but do not procrastinate. The course consists of video lectures and test tasks, which listeners pass at any time from any computer, tablet or smartphone. Designed for 13 weeks, corresponds to two credits. The course is designed for young researchers: PhD degree seekers, university teachers, all, who seeks to learn more about scientific communication, its main components, the latest trends and technologies, secrets of effective work with information, research data management, as well as gain relevant skills. The course was developed by teachers and staff of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in cooperation with the company "CLARIVATE ANALYTICS", NGO "ELIBUKR" and the project "FOSTER". Registration More information Course structure: Week 1. Introduction. Scientific communication: history, modernity, future trends. Week 2. Basics of information retrieval. Search engines. The structure of scientific information. Databases. Basics of working with EBSCO database. Week 3.Scientometry. Impactfactor. h-index. Absolute and normalized indicators. Reports of scientists. Institutional reports. Week 4. Web of Science platform. Week 5. Basics of working with the Scopus database. Check the indexing of the publication in Scopus. Week 6. Profiles of scientists. Let's publish. ORCID. Research Gate. Scopus Author ID, Google Scholar Citations and others. Week 7. Work with reference managers. EndNote. Mendeley. Week 8. Research ethics and academic integrity. Academic integrity and types of its violations. Means to avoid plagiarism. Ethics of working with data and useful resources for verifying scientific sources of information. Week 9. Publication. Quality criteria for scientific publications. Publishing process. Elements of the article. Edition selection. Reviewing. Distribution of publications. Week 10. Copyright for scientists. Week 11. Open science. Week 12. RDM (Research Data Management). Research data management and data life cycle. Where to store and how to cite research data. Week 13. Publication of the dissertation. After completing the course you will be able to: Understand, how modern scientific communication takes place, how open access, open science, open licenses, research data management affect the life cycle of research, in particular, in disseminating and preserving the results of your research. Apply modern practices and search techniques to work with scientific sources, use universal and specialized information resources, modern web applications for different stages of research and more. At the end of the course to those who scored more 60 with 100 points, a certificate of completion of the course is issued.