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Editorial Workshop Concludes

The Central Library, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram organised an Editorial Workshop on ‘How to Publish with Taylor & Francis’ on 22.02.2017.

The goal of this workshop was to make the IISER community aware of the publishing process, various steps involved and to provide tips and advice in the publishing process and thereby enhancing the publications of the Institute. The workshop was held at the seminar hall of the Institute

The workshop was handled by Dr. Gagandeep Singh, senior editor (acquisitions) for engineering/environmental sciences at the CRC Press. He is also editorial manager for the CRC press team in India and takes care of engineering acquisitions programme in Australia as well.

Faculty members and students were well attended in this workshop. The participants from the permanent campus took part in the workshop via video conferencing.

The workshop started with a welcome address by Dr. Sainul Abideen. P, Asst. Librarian, followed by the presentations by Dr Gagandeep Singh.  Participants got useful insight from the speaker on how to prepare a perfect manuscript and how to avoid the common mistakes while drafting an article. He spoke about the difference parameters of publishing books and articles. He explained what peer review is, and how to handle peer-review comments and talked about the copyright issues and how to manage them to avoid piracy.

At the end of the session, speaker clarified the doubts of the participants by answering their question regarding the topic.


An exhibition of CRC press books was also arranged as part of the workshop, which was attended by faculty members and students.

Dr. Sainul Abideen introducing the speaker


Dr. Gagandeep Singh addressing the audience



Participants of the Editorial Workshop



Faculty members visiting the book display


From the book display

From the book display


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