Copyright and Plagiarism issues in Academics by V. Sriram in Capacity building workshop for Research Scholars, Faculty and Students, Government KNM Arts and Science College, Kanjiramkulam, Thiruvananthapuram, India. 7th August 2021.

1. Copyright and plagiarism issues
in academics
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N.Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
Capacity building workshop for Research Scholars,
Faculty and Students
IQA Cell, Government KNM Arts & Science College
Kanjiramkulam, Thiruvananthapuram
7th August 2021

2. CONTENTS
Copyright
Types of copyright
Fair use
Open Access / Free access resources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Plagiarism issues
Plagiarism detection tools
Tips to avoid plagiarism

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes
 Commentaries
 Internal or external
report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis
 Multimedia
 Video
 Podcasts

4. Copyright
Copyright is the legal right to intellectual
content in any form
The owner holds the exclusive right to make
multiple copies of the work
It protects the owner by preventing others from
It protects the owner by preventing others from
illegally reproducing the work in any format.
Protection to authors, performers, producers,
artists, etc. To stimulate their creativity.
Any mature society should protect and nurture
the creativity and safeguard culture.
Copyright thus leads to growth and
development of the country.

5. Copyright - Types
Economic rights
Royalty
Sale
Moral rights
Can be transferred or
reassigned
Personal rights of owner
Integrity
Attribution
Cannot be transferred. It remains
always with the author.

6. Fair use
Non-commercial limited use
Education and Research
News reporting, commentary, reviews

7. Open Access
Revolt against exploitation by publishers
New movement to provide free access of knowledge to
all.
OA Resources
Books
Journals
Video
Images
Data

8. Directory of Open Access
Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of
https://www.doabooks.org
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of
Open Access books.
43651 Academic peer-reviewed books and book
chapters from 653 publishers.
Free to access and download.

9. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose
among free epub books, free kindle books, download
them or read them online. You will find the world's great
literature here, especially older works for which copyright
has expired.
Free to access and download.

10. Directory of
Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that
indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-
reviewed journals.
Provides more than 16638 journals in all subjects.
Free to access and download

11. PLOS
https://www.plos.org/publications
Public Library of Science is a non-profit publisher.
Top quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Free to access and download.

12. You Tube
-Filters
- Features
- Creative Commons

13. Google Images
-Tools
- Usage Rights
- Creative Commons License

14. Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/ - Any License
- Creative Commons

15. Open Govt. Data
Platform, India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India -
https://data.gov.in
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India -
data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data
initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to
be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments
their organizations to publish datasets, documents,
services, tools and applications collected by them for
public use.

16. Copyright
Remember to check the copyright information of all
materials before you use them.
Try to use Open Access resources more and more
Always be aware of your rights as a an author, and
Always be aware of your rights as a an author, and
never infringe upon others rights.

17. Plagiarism issues
Taking other peoples words and pass off as one’s own
Plagiarism instances
Copying a large portion
Failing to put quotation marks / indentation
Missing out citations / references
Copying and changing words here and there
Self plagiarism

18. Plagiarism Checking
Technology to trace plagiarism in documents using
similarity between documents and sources.
Commercial tools - Turnitin, Urkund
Free s/w
UGC Act 2018
UGC Act 2018
Journal Editorial Policy

19. Turnitin

20. Urkund

21. Plagiarism Check
Copyleaks https://copyleaks.com/
Dupli Checker https://www.duplichecker.com/
Plagiarism Checker
https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker
Prepost SEO https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-
checker
Viper http://scanmyessay.com/

22. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude
the following:
i. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary
permission and/or attribution.
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content,
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content,
preface and acknowledgements.
iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and
standards equations.

23. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
Note
The research shall be based on original ideas, which
shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,
observations, results, conclusions and
observations, results, conclusions and
recommendations only and shall not have any
similarities.
It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental
terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.

24. Avoiding plagiarism
Thorough literature search and reading
Copy from external sources as little as possible
Use quotation marks / indentation for all external
sources
Include citation and references for all external sources
Develop your own writing style, and adhere to it
Develop your own writing style, and adhere to it

25. Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
V. Sriram
Email: vsrirams@gmail.com