UTM Library in collaboration with Springer Nature has co-organised a hybrid webinar session entitled Supporting Your Research Webinar: “Impact of Springer eBooks in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia”. This session was conducted on 16th August 2022 from 10.00 am –11.30 am. The speakers are Dr. Ramesh Nath Premnath, the Senior Book Editor based in the Springer Nature Singapore Office since 2012 and Mr. Kent Yeap who is the Licensing Manager for Springer Nature, Institutional Sales, Malaysia and Brunei. A total number of 60 participants have joined the webinar.
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The webinar covers Springer Nature:
- UTM publication output in Springer Nature portfolio over the years
- Motivation-Why do authors decide to write a book
- What sort of book do you want to write?
- Books series
- The Publication Process
- Submitting a Proposal
- Book Proposal – Findability tips
- Keywords
- Book Title
- Five tips for creating the USPs
- Short Information Text / Abstract
- The Peer Review Process
- PhD thesis to books
- What is Open Access?
- Open Access book (and chapter) Publishing
- The OA effect
- Predatory Open Access – Swimming with Shark
- The future of books is our responsibility
- Selected innovative projects from Springer Nature’s “Book Lab”