Training for Academicians

PHS Training Series for Academicians is organized by USM Library in cooperation with The Centre for Development of Academic Excellence (CDAE) starting January 2020. The aim of this program is to highlight various research tools that will help the researchers to produce high quality research efficiently. Currently, three courses are offered:

  • Online Research Tips for Effective Searching Strategy

Date, Time & Venue
  • 20 January 2020 (Tuesday)
  • 10.00am – 12.00pm (2 hours)
  • Computer Lab Rafflesia, 1st Floor, PHS
Course/Training Objective The main objective of this training is to introduce some of the research support tools which can help the researchers to find and produce high-quality research with efficiency.
Course/Training Overview To explore some of the useful research-related platforms/websites which can be used to find high-quality articles related to your research:

  1. Scopus
  2. Dimensions
  3. Mycite
  4. KRISALIS Discovery
  5. Google Scholar
  6. Microsoft Academic
  7. Mendeley Data
  8. Figshare
  9. Datacite

    • Optimize Your Researcher Profile for Better Visibility

Date, Time & Venue
  • 20 February 2020 (Thursday)
  • 10.00am – 12.00pm (2 hours)
  • Computer Lab Rafflesia, 1st Floor, PHS
Course/Training Objective The main objective for this training is to increase the visibility of researchers and the valuable works they are undertaking
Course/Training Overview To develop and optimize online researcher profiles to increase visibility. By having researcher profile, it will connect you and your research and make your scholarship highly discoverable through many different platforms and systems, as well as help users reach author-specific information more quickly and effectively:

  1. ORCID
  2. Publons
  3. Scopus ID
  4. Google Scholar ID

  • Research Visibility Tools for Researchers

Date, Time & Venue
  • 19 March 2020 (Thursday)
  • 10.00am – 12.00pm (2 hours)
  • Computer Lab Rafflesia, 1st Floor, PHS
Course/Training Objective The main objective of this training is to optimize research visibility tools to showcase their research outputs for greater impact.
Course/Training Overview To optimize Social Media tools and change the ways in which researchers undertake research, and open up new forms of communication and dissemination via:

  1. Mendeley Web
  2. LinkedIn
  3. Research Gate
  4. Academia.edu
  5. Registry of Open Access Repositories
  6. Kudos

Registration for each course can be done via MyCPD at Campus Online USM.

To browse the e-Module (Mind Map) for this training (including all the links for the tools), please click here.

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More information, please email mohdkamal@usm.my ; rujukan@usm.my or contact 04-653 5374 ; 04-653 5350.