NCDS 2020 invites research papers in the following themes and
sub-themes:
Scholarly Communication
o Trends in collaborative research
o Virtual Research Environments
o Research Infrastructure development
o Scholarly communication and Social Media
o Role of libraries in research activities
Digital Archiving
o Institutional repositories and archives
o Data curation
o Data repositories
o Archiving of manuscripts
Research Ethics and IPR
o Quality Metrics and scholarly content
o Plagiarism
o Copyright and Libraries
o Citation standards and policies
o Reference management
Open access scholarly contents
o Open access journals and repositories
o Open Educational Resources
o Open Data
o Quality evaluation of open access
publications
o Economic and Policy models of open access
Public Libraries and Digital
Scholarship
o Design and development of digital archives
o Digital preservation policies
o Digital services
o Intellectual Property Rights and public
libraries
o Social media and Public libraries
