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Bsp Books Scholarly Communication Open Access Publishing and Ethics (Pb) by Rao and Y Srinivasa
Academic education, research and development intensify the nation socially and fiscally competitive. Institutions have greater role to enhance their intellectual infrastructure facilitations to help in the process of building an institutional academic and research culture through means of scholarly communication and publication. This booklet “Scholarly Communication, Open-access Publishing and Ethics” (SCOPE-2018) covers various papers of peer-reviewed and presented them in the International Conference on SCOPE-2018 held at SPA Vijayawada during 25 - 26 October 2018. Indeed, these papers are divided into four important subject areas viz. academic research and development; scholarly communication; open access publishing, copyright and ethics; and academic library, preservation facilitations. Part one, mainly focused on academic and research related areas. these areas are new pedagogy for teaching, curriculum development, a case study of current internship practice, research methodology from philosophical standpoint, information, intellectual infrastructure development and social engineering and human security. Part two of the volume, having papers of scholarly communication and its cycle process, publications trend especially in biochemistry research in India, collaborative authorship, scientometric, bibliometric citation and analysis. Part three of the volume covered an open-access (OA) publishing, copyright and ethics. In which, there are papers mainly discussed about OA publications, tools, polices, copyright and corrupt practices including predatory journal publications. Part four, focused about academic libraries and preservation facilitations. It consisted of papers having topics of academic libraries and their digital asset management.