A one-day seminar for doctoral students and anyone interested in academic publishing principles
📅 April 22, 2026
📍 Central Library CTU in Prague (in-person event) meeting room Vítkov (Betlémský palác, Husova 240/5, Praha 1)
Registration:
Please sign up. The number of spots for the lectures is limited. Thanks for understanding.
Why attend?
You will gain practical knowledge, tips, and skills to make your academic journey easier – from literature search, evaluating and organizing information resources to publishing in scholarly journals, and reporting your research outputs.
About the seminar
This full-day seminar is primarily designed for doctoral students but is open to anyone interested in the topics listed below. The content is based on the course “Information for Science and Research” and focuses on essential aspects of academic work:
- How to effectively search and evaluate information resources
- Intellectual property rights and publishing ethics
- Open Science principles
- Scholarly publishing and research assessment
Each session provides an overview of the topic and offers space for questions and discussion.
Preliminary programme
8:30–10:00 INFORMATION RESOURCES
- Where to search
- How to search
- Citation databases
10:00–12:00 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- Copyright
- Publishing ethics
- Industrial property rights
- Technology transfer, commercialization
13:00–14:00 OPEN SCIENCE
- Open Access
- Research data management
14:00–15:00 SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING PRINCIPLES
15:00–15:30 RESEARCH IMPACT AND EVALUATION