TLT Webinar: Bibliometric Analyst as a profession for ISLM graduates

The Librarian Times is inviting you to a number of scheduled Zoom webinars: Presented by: Dr Jakaria Rahman 

Bibliometric Analyst as a profession for ISLM graduates

Nowadays, Universities and research organizations are using bibliometric methods in a novel way. This webinar will focus on how bibliometrics is utilized to identify quantitative indicators for academic productivity and quality.

Objective

To inform the significance of bibliometrics being incorporated as a part of librarianship tasks and required competencies.

Content

The nature of bibliometric activities, motivations and consequences, opportunities, benefits, risks, training facilities and research activities.

Outcome

This webinar will benefit the ISLM graduates to know how they can come forward as a bibliometric analyst.

The language of the webinar: Bengali

Date: Friday 28 September 2018

Time: 5 PM (Bangladesh Standard Time)

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About the Presenter

Dr Jakaria Rahman is engaged as a Bibliometric Analyst at the Department of communication and learning in science of the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.  His works consist of analyzing publications impact and research collaborations to suggest development strategies, publication strategies and policies with the university management and departments and contribute to the university ranking analytics. He is also involved in several research projects.

He obtained bachelor, master, and MPhil degree in information science and library management from the University of Dhaka. He received Dutch Bangla Bank fellowship to pursue MPhil program. He attended 3-months international training on scientific and technological information management in universities and libraries with Belgian government’s VLIR-UOS scholarship. He was granted European Unions’ Erasmus Mundus scholarship that he ended successfully after 2-years of MSc studies in Digital Library in collaboration with three universities in Norway, Estonia, and Italy. Later, he briefly worked for Opera software in Norway. Further, he worked as a researcher at the University of Antwerp and was conferred with PhD degree from there. During his MSc and PhD studies, he has collaborated extensively with colleagues throughout Europe and spent time at several European universities and presented his research findings in different international conferences. He spent his early career years at the IJSG, BANSDOC, EWU, and ICDDR, B.

He has published a good number of research articles in Web of Science and Scopus indexed journals. All his publications are open access and available through ResearchGate (see at https://tinyurl.com/yb6p673h) and E-LIS repository (see at http://eprints.rclis.org). His ORCID ID is 0000-0001-7876-4631.

He is a member of ASIS&T and a life member of BALID and LAB.

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