The document discusses research and publication ethics and provides guidelines for responsible conduct of research. It outlines several key ethical principles researchers should follow, including honesty, objectivity, integrity, openness, care, respect for intellectual property and colleagues, confidentiality, responsible publication and mentoring, social responsibility, non-discrimination, competence, legality, and respect for animals and human subjects in research. It also lists and compares features of several free plagiarism detection tools available online.

1. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
(RPE17001)
Assignment 1
Submitted by: TARUNA
PC2333001013001

2. Ethics with respect to Research
• Research ethics provides guidelines for
the responsible conduct of research.
In addition, it educates and monitors
scientists conducting research to ensure
a high ethical standard.

3. The following is a general summary of some
ethical principles:
• Honesty: Honestly report data, results, methods and
procedures, and publication status. Do not fabricate,
falsify, or misrepresent data.
• Objectivity: Strive to avoid bias in experimental
design, data analysis, data interpretation, peer
review, personnel decisions, grant writing, expert
testimony, and other aspects of research.
• Integrity: Keep your promises and agreements; act
with sincerity; strive for consistency of thought and
action.
• Openness: Share data, results, ideas, tools,
resources. Be open to criticism and new ideas.

4. • Carefulness: Avoid careless errors and
negligence; carefully and critically examine
your own work and the work of your peers.
Keep good records of research activities.
• Respect for Intellectual Property: Honor
patents, copyrights, and other forms of
intellectual property. Do not use unpublished
data, methods, or results without permission.
Give credit where credit is due. Never
plagiarize.
• Respect for Colleagues: Respect your
colleagues and treat them fairly.

5. • Confidentiality: Protect confidential
communications, such as papers or grants
submitted for publication, personnel records,
trade or military secrets, and patient records.
• Responsible Publication: Publish in order to
advance research and scholarship, not to
advance just your own career. Avoid wasteful
and duplicative publication.
• Responsible Mentoring: Help to educate,
mentor, and advise students. Promote their
welfare and allow them to make their own
decisions.

6. • Social Responsibility: Strive to promote social good
and prevent or mitigate social harms through
research, public education, and advocacy.
• Non-Discrimination: Avoid discrimination against
colleagues or students on the basis of sex, race,
ethnicity, or other factors that are not related to their
scientific competence and integrity.
• Competence: Maintain and improve your own
professional competence and expertise through
lifelong education and learning; take steps to promote
competence in science as a whole.

7. • Legality: Know and obey relevant laws and
institutional and governmental policies.
• Animal Care: Show proper respect and care for
animals when using them in research. Do not
conduct unnecessary or poorly designed animal
experiments.
• Human Subjects Protection: When conducting
research on human subjects, minimize harms and
risks and maximize benefits; respect human dignity,
privacy, and autonomy.

8. Plagiarism detection tools that are
freely available.
• Plagiarism by the dictionary, means “copying another
person's words and pretending that they are your
own”.
• Plagiarism is not considered as a major crime but
may fall under the category of copyright
infringement in some cases and is a major concern
for educational institutions and publishing
companies. Due to these reasons, there has been an
increasing demand for plagiarism checker software.

9. List of Free Plagiarism Detection Tools
1.Plagiarism Checker X
2.Turnitin Plagiarism Checker
3. Copyscape
4. Ginger
5. Plagscan
6. Plagiarisma
7. Duplichecker
8. Plagly
9. Urkund Plagiarism Checker
10. iThenticate Plagiarism Detection Software
11. CopyLeaks Plagiarism Detector
12. Quetext
13. PaperRater
14. Plagium

10. Features of Plagiarism Checker X:
• Scans your documents up to 16 billion web pages across
multiple search engines.
• It can locate copied content easily and you can get a side-by-
side window to do the comparison.
• Supports bulk-cross comparisons which means that you can
analyze multiple documents to determine their originality
within single or multiple repositories.
• It can cross-examine up to 20,000 words within one second
accurately.
• Your submitted content is not stored or uploaded anywhere.
So, it is extremely safe and secure in every sense.
• Supports 7 languages, i.e. English, Spanish, French, German,
Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.

11. Features of Turnitin Online Plagiarism Checker:
• Instant analysis of content originality with citations and
sources
• Duplicity results presented in a simple format
• Also helps with grammar and spelling checks
• Provides suggestions for better word usage
• WriteCheck by Turnitin also provides the similarity score
Features of Urkund:
• It checks for plagiarism in study materials, published materials
and internet sources
• Provides relevant matches for plagiarism with higher accuracy
• Ensures complete data security and allows you to create a
secure content database
• Unmatched uptime and analysis delivery speed

12. Features of iThenticate Plagiarism Detector:
• You can start easily by buying credits as per your needs
• It screens content submissions for duplicity with higher uptime
• Provides the most critical matches in minutes
• Detailed reports to detect sources of plagiarism.
Features of Copyscape:
• It can send notifications by email whenever your content is
copied.
• It comes with a WordPress plugin.
• Its premium version can check up to 10,000 pages.
• It can also allow you to create a ‘private index’ so that
whenever any new content is generated into the system, it will
go for a plagiarism check automatically.

13. Features of Ginger:
• Built with the patent-pending technology to fix your document.
• Consists of a spell checker which will help you in correcting
spelling mistakes.
• It is a grammar checker that will fix a vast range of grammatical
errors, typos and wrong usage of words.
• Has the feature of instant proofreading where your errors will
be highlighted side by side
Features of Plagscan:
• It can scan multiple webpages by just using the URL.
• Supports a variety of languages.
• Offers API integration.
• It has its own Plagiarism Prevention Tools.
• With its servers located in Germany, it keeps your data
extremely secure.
• Provides structured reports facilitating authentic checking

14. Features of Quetext:
• Basic layout and functional interface that checks against
the Internet, as well as various databases.
• Quetext is entirely free.
• No account, registration or downloads needed.
Features of Plagium:
• Basic but fully functional free plagiarism detection tool
with different levels of search.
• You basically copy-paste text. It features 2 types of
searches, quick search and deep search.
• For up to 5,000 characters per search you don't have to
pay any fee.

15. Features of PaperRater:
• A multi-purpose free plagiarism detection tool that is used in
over 140 countries.
• 3 Tools In 1: Proofreader & Grammar Check, Vocabulary Builder,
Plagiarism Checker.
• Developed by a team of computational linguists and subject
matter experts.
• PaperRater boasts accurate results in seconds.
Features of Plagly:
• Help you improve writing efficiency
• You can compare your text instantly to more than 20 billion
sources .
• Fast and accurate to help you easily and more efficiently detect
duplicate and plagiarized content.
• You can also check grammar issues to improve writing efficiency
and get correct text and content.
• The tool eliminates style and structure mistakes by proofreading
your content and articles online.

16. Features of Plagiarisma:
• Works on multiple platforms like Windows, Android, Blackberry,
Moodle and the web.
• Supports various platforms like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Scholar.
• Helps with search engine optimization
• It can support various file formats including Word, PDF, HTML, TXT,
XLS, PPTX and many more.
• Support up to 190 languages.
• It can be used offline in Windows.
Features of Duplichecker:
• You can check your content with Duplichecker by pasting your text in
the search bar, with a maximum of 1000 words per search.
• You can also check your content by uploading your documents using
the browse button.
• It provides paraphrasing and grammar checking tools as well.
• Apart from removing plagiarism online, you can also compare the
copied content with the source content simultaneously.