Feel Recognized: Dissemination is the way - WHY ?

 Why should I disseminate ?

1. Increased Citations: It helps an author to get more number of citations.
2. Collaboration: With dissemination, you get a chance to meet like-minded people those working in your domain leading you to a discussion, bearing fruitful results. 
3. Improved SEO: It optimizes your profile page / website’s ranking in search engines. 
4. Increased traffic: Fetches more traffic for your website or webpage on University website. 
5. Feedback: More the readership of your research more can be the number of improvements or opinions for your research.
6. Networking: It helps to create a group of people having common research interests.
7. Follow your work: By having a look at the analytics you can find out that, how your research is performing in different research communities.
8. Grants: Visible and disseminated research always has more chance to win funding. Your effort to disseminate your work always gives a positive impression on funding agencies which promote their research results publically after completion.
9. Employment opportunities: It may be possible that your work manage to impress an employer and bags you a job, internship or scholarship. 
10. Social awareness: To communicate what you are pursuing, what you want to attain, how it’s relevant & important strengthen your relationship with civil society and contributes for the development of society directly or indirectly. 

In the nut shell, Dissemination opens many hidden doors and is always a profitable deal if it is executed by considering all the related legal as well as policy issues of your funding agency or publisher.

Contributed By: Hasmeet Singh, Gursharan Singh

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Feel Recognized: Dissemination is the way - Introduction

What is dissemination ?

To spread abroad your work as though sowing seed is known as dissemination. With dissemination, only half of the communication model theory is applied. The information is sent out and received, but no reply is given. The message carrier sends out the information, not to one individual, but many in a broadcasting system. An example of this transmission of information is in the field of advertising, public announcements and speeches. Another perspective to look at dissemination is that of which it derives from the Latin roots, the scattering of seeds. These seeds are metaphors for voice or words: to spread voice, words, and opinion to an audience ^[1].

Is Dissemination of your research manuscript a sole responsibility of Publisher? 
The answer is NO, because with the increasing traffic of research manuscripts and sources to disseminate on the World Wide Web, it is not a good decision to rely completely on publisher for disseminating your research work.

In these series of posts, we will discuss about the dissemination of research manuscripts on the behalf of author considering two scenarios: Before Publishing / After Publishing in any peer-reviewed journals, conference or symposium etc. In the first case, be careful to check out the dissemination policies of your publisher before disseminating your published manuscript. On the other hand, if you have chosen to disseminate your research manuscript before submitting it to any Open Access Journals like IJORCS, Wiley Open Access etc. do check their policies on their website.

This series would be dedicated to provide information about the usage of various dissemination techniques, such as by using:

• Pre-print archives 
• Using Social networks 
• Open access repositories 
• Institutional repositories 
• Press releases 
• Institutional newsletters 
• Research briefs 
• Printed briefs on Conferences 
• Podcasts 
• Video dissemination 
• Wikipedia 
• Reference management websites 

References:

[1].  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissemination (last accessed 25 September 2012).

Contributed By: Gursharan Singh, Hasmeet Singh

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Fading the distinction: A Conference or a Journal ?

Why to publish in a conference ?

Being a newbie in the computer science domain you should choose to publish in a conference because of some reasons listed below:

• Conferences intend to provide higher visibility and impact at somewhat greater extent. 
• As we can experience from the past that most of the good researchers / inventors favor the choice to get the research work published in a conference or we can say, a high impact conference. 
• While attending a conference you will get an opportunity to talk with other researchers / scholars from your domain and answer their queries regarding your work. 
• Even if you are going to publish your good work in a low quality conference or journal, you are going to be considered as a bogus author. If, you are still finding for a rule to recognize best quality conferences you can consider the conferences sponsored by some associations like ACM, IEEE, IJORCS, SPRINGER etc. 
• Conferences have higher status, mainly those which are connected with some journals of International repute like JCSS-Elsevier, IJORCS -White Globe, JCST-Springer. 
• Conferences do work in timely fashion as they have to publish the research work at a specific time. But, in a journal, it can take years for a journal publication to appear (or even for reviews to come back, if they follow a strict double-blind peer-review process like IJORCS). On the other hand, the turnaround time for conference reviews is extended just for few months, and the proceedings may also appear more quickly. 
• Conferences generally have higher standards of novelty. Journals often only require 20-30% of the material to be new when compared to an earlier conference version of the paper. 

Why to publish in a journal ?

Considering the case of a journal, publishing the research work is desirable in the following situations:

• Journals normally have longer page limits defined. This can be really beneficial if you have done an extended research work which could cover a larger number of pages. 
• In a journal, you can also include some results that are too long (or boring) to be displayed in a shorter publication such as a conference. In short, your research paper published in a journal could describe your entire research area in a proper way. 
• Journals are better when you think of finding the shortcomings of your research work and get it revised. You can then resubmit it to the editorial or review board to get it accepted or to continue the review cycle again. This scenario can also be used with the help of conferences, when a paper gets rejected by one conference, you can check the comments in the review report provided and ultimately improve your manuscript ending with a submission in a new journal same year. 
• A journal can be very helpful to you if you want to publish your series of results periodically, as this helps you to spread more awareness about your research by publishing into journals of different continents saving lots of time (which would have been used by you to present your research in different parts of world) and gathering recognition for your work on a broader prospective. 
• You always have a better chance of tracking your research paper in terms of citations, number of reads etc when published in a journal as many conferences are not indexed at a good level as compared to the research work published in a Journal. 

Same article, if two reviewed by two journals of same scope may not yield to the same result, but a journal acceptance for your research paper is always a seal of approval which states that the research findings displayed by you is capable of getting published as it has been evaluated by a group of reviewers (for peer reviewed journals) having some level of expertise in that specific domain. Moreover many times journal publications are considered as a hall ticket in appearing for some good opportunities in research or academic field. Below can be some additional advantages of publishing in journal. 

1. A broader outreach, i.e. providing a worldwide readership to your research work.
2. Key articles highlighted with linked editorials, commentaries and/or press releases 
3. Money - A share of significant commercial reprint revenue from your research. This is being followed by some journals like BMJ Journals

Contributed By: Gursharan Singh, Hasmeet Singh

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Accessing Latest Research in Computer Science

From the last two decades, web has always been a better source to access the latest research work being carried out in any domain ranging from Molecular Sciences up to the Mining cores. While searching for latest research work in the computer science domain, there are plenty of resources available, but choosing a good quality resource is difficult. Some good resources that we have encountered are Science Daily, international journals like IJORCS, some computer science blogs and discussion forums on the University websites. Now let us discuss few of them briefly.

Being a researcher, we can state a journal of the computer science domain (IJORCS) to be a better resource to read latest research manuscripts. But being a layman and not familiar to research journals, we need to consult the posts on websites like ‘Science Daily’, if we want to learn about recent advancements in computer sciences.

In case of a newbie researcher, the best way to read recent news on computer sciences is to surf the internet or to subscribe to RSS feeds of some Active Blogger’s who are committed to write about all the recent advancements at regular intervals describing some specific fields of your choice.

Now if we consider being a Ph.D scholar, the best way to uplift their knowledge is to discuss their research ideas as a post in the discussion forums, to get the ideas or viewpoints of all the budding scholars/researchers of that particular domain and possibly, from other domains. Comments on the post from a researcher of another domain can be very beneficial in your work. If suitable, it may revolutionize your work by giving birth to a multidisciplinary research work.

If you want to extract some more information on latest topics in computer science domain, following links can be helpful to you:

• http://katemarieldizon.blogspot.in/2009/07/current-state-of-cs-research-topics.html
• http://www.ijorcs.org/archive
• http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/news/

All the above links provides you a complete review of the latest research work covering all the sub-domains of computer sciences. Following these links could also be beneficial as they are always updated timely.

You can also subscribe to some good analysts or people of your domain through multiple social networks like, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Research gate. Frankly, real inventors generally have a habit of keeping a lower interaction level with the society as compared to others.

Contributed By: Hasmeet Singh, Gursharan Singh

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