Research Publications, Open Access, Plagiarism, and Reference Management
V. SriramChief Librarian
Centre for Development StudiesThiruvananthapuram, IndiaThiruvananthapuram, Indiaemail: [email protected]
Special Winter School, Dr. John Matthai Centre, University of Calicut,
Thrissur. India29th November 2014
Contents
� Avenues of Research Publication� Open Access� OA Publishing� Publishing process� Plagiarism� Managing Literature� Reference management software
Avenues of Publication
� Journal article� Article in a collection� Contribution to
newspapersCommentaries
� 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
Open Access
� Green Open AccessDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/
� Gold Open AccessDOAJ http://doaj.org/ DOAJ http://doaj.org/
� Hybrid Open Access
Open Access
� OA stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse
� Articles are free to all interested readers� No copyright barriers between the readers � No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.� OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions
OA Benefits
� Accelerated discovery� Public enrichment. � Improved education.
Funding for research.� Funding for research.
OA PublishersBioMed Central publishes 272 peer-reviewed open access journals. http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS) http://www.plos.org/
Science Publishing Group (SciencePC)http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/home/index.aspx
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)http://doaj.org/ (More than 10000 journals)
Creative Commons
Source: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
OA Publishing
� Choosing the right publisher� Editor / Editorial Board Members� Journal coverage / objectives � Impact Factor � Journal Indexing Services� Journal Indexing Services� Pay and publish model� Checking predatory publishers (Source
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/)
ProcessGeneral guidelines� Subject � Language and � Organization.
Process
� General Manuscript Format� Organization of the paper
1. Title 2. Author(s) 3. Abstract & Keyterms4. Introduction
8. Conclusion 9. Acknowledgements10. Appendices4. Introduction
5. Previous Literature 6. Methodology7. Results
10. Appendices11. References 12. Illustrations13. Author’s CV
Tips
� You must know the audience – their types and levels of knowledge.
� You must have something to say, i. e. knowledge of the subject.
� Make the write up relevant and readable.� Keep it simple – avoid poly-syllabic frenzy.� Keep it simple – avoid poly-syllabic frenzy.� Consider your language and style.� Get your piece checked by a friend or colleague
with a good grasp of grammar and of your subject area.
� Build up a relationship / network of peers
Plagiarism
� Paraphrasing an article, book or journal too closely� 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 creditGiving 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
Plagiarism Check
� Turnitin – http://turnitin.com/
� Viper - http://scanmyessay.com/
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.
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
Zotero
� Free – Open Source� Platform independent � Works Offline and Online� Over 6700 referencing styles
www.zotero.org
� Over 6700 referencing styles � Data Sharing� 26 fields� 34 Types of Sources� Linking full text / pdf� Integration with MS-Office / Open Office
Starting an Journal in OA
� Open Journal System (OJS) https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
� Ambra: An Open source publishing system http://www.ambraproject.org/
Contributing to mother tongue
� Malayalam Wikipedia has 37297 articles (Source http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
� Malayalam is used by less than 0.1% of all the websites as content language (Source http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-/all/all )
� Publish at least one item per year in your mother tongue.
� Literature in any language will grow and get enriched only with systematic efforts.
Visibility
� Research Gate http://www.researchgate.net/
� Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
� Image Storage – Drop Box, Picasa
� Multimedia Storage – You Tube
Presentations, Notes – Slide Share� Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
� Social networking – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, …
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