Research Publications, Open Access, Plagiarism, and Reference Management

V. SriramChief Librarian

Centre for Development StudiesThiruvananthapuram, IndiaThiruvananthapuram, Indiaemail: vsrirams@gmail.com

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, …

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!

V Sriramemail: vsrirams@gmail.com