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 Do not use unpublished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.
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.
