Reference Management Software and Plagiarism Prevention by V. Sriram in Workshop on Research Methodology, Sree Neelakanta Govt. Sanskrit College, Pattambi. India. 2nd February 2019.
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Reference Management and Plagiarism prevention
1. Reference Management Software
and
Plagiarism Prevention
V. Sriram
Chief LibrarianChief Librarian
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
E-mail: vsrirams@gmail.com
Workshop on Research Methods
Sree Neelakanta Govt. Sanskrit College, Pattambi. India.
2nd February 2019.
3. Avenues of Publication
Journal article
Article in a collection
Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
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
4. Managing Literature and References
Systematic gathering of sources:
Using proper tools to gather literature – Google
Scholar, Journal Databases, …
Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes,
comments, and making it error free
Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.
5. Reference management software
Need:
Enhance the presentation
Good practice to give due credit
Avoid plagiarism
Benefits:
search easily for a particular reference to which
you need to refer back
print or save lists of references
insert citations into your document and
automatically produce a bibliography in whatever
style you require
6. Zotero
Free – Open Source
Platform independent
Works Offline and Online
Over 9333 referencing styles
www.zotero.org
Over 9333 referencing styles
Data Sharing
26 fields
34 Types of Sources
Linking full text / pdf
Integration with MS-Office / Open Office
31. Conclusion
Organizes your research materials
Long term storage
Reduces data entry and formatting
Helps to develop your research Helps to develop your research
32. Plagiarism
Copying large portions from other publications
Missing out punctuation in a citation
Submitting a publication that you didn't write
Copying words or ideas from someone else's work,
without giving credit
Giving incorrect information about the source of a Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
Copying sentence structure but changing words
around, without giving credit
Copying from your own work
Source: http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/what-is-plagiarism.php
36. 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 i. All quoted work reproduced with all
necessary permission and/or attribution.
ii. All references, bibliography, table of
content, preface and acknowledgements.
iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols
and standards equations.
37. 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,shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,
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.
38. Visibility
Research Gate http://www.researchgate.net/
Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
Multimedia Storage – You Tube
Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
Social networking – Facebook, Twitter, Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, …
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