 Hello all, in this video I am going to demonstrate how to use research gate effectively. Research gate is one of the social networking platform and my personal favorite too. So the purpose of social networking in research is to share our own publications and hence we can access other articles also and thereby increasing our article reads and therefore the citations. And this statistics of how many people reading our article and how many citations we are getting for our article also can be tracked to throw the statistics section of this social networking sites. Then the main purpose of this social networking site is to connect and collaborate with other researchers in the field which can be your colleagues, peers, co-authors and other specialists or experts in your field. We can also ask questions, get answers and find solutions to the research problems. Some of the social networking sites offers learning programs and also helps us in finding new jobs. So about research gate, I have logged in currently. If you have not published a paper for you to log in, it is not allowed nowadays. But through institutional email ID you can log in. If you don't have an institutional email ID and have a publication then if you upload your publication it will help us to create your own profile. And if some of your co-authors is using research gate, through them you can get the invite and you can use this research gate. So you can go here and click on this invite to co-authors section, there they can send the invite and they can use this research gate. Here in research gate we have three important sections here that is home. Here in home section we have different articles loaded for different purposes and it will be written here based on our interest, based on our extended network like that. The beauty of this research gate is you can go to this, see about this author, his publications and so on and you can get the access for this article also. If suppose you don't have the full access then what you can do is and request the author for full text copy. We can also post questions for your research and you can ask a technical question, you can start a discussion and based on that people can, people will respond for your questions so that your doubts can be cleared. That's why you can find and jobs is a new recent addition, you can find jobs, you can search for jobs based on the regions and research areas thereby you can find the jobs. Then you can search for and more recently because many people are updating their articles into the research gate. Now research gate is more used as a search engine so you can search your research journals here. This is the notification symbol and this is the direct messages. Some of the researchers if they want to contact you, we can contact them. You can directly message to other co-authors also here. We can add new researchers through this add new section. If you click on this add new section, you can add any published research, preprint conference papers, presentation poster data and other methodologies proposal all can be added here. For me personally, research gate helps us in accessing the articles, get in contact with the researchers and being aware of what is happening around in our own field of research. If you have any doubts, you can post it in the comment section. Thanks for watching this video. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, please subscribe. Thanks again.