Dear Friends,
Plagiarizing gets unnoticed when the original articles / documents are
NOT accessible online. In today's 'Net Culture' it would be rather
impossible for anybody to plagiarize an online document and get away
with it. The Internet search engines (Google for example) would
immediately show up original documents by just feeding one or two
sentences (within quotes) from the plagiarizing article.
Thus this is one more reason why authors should make their articles
'Open Access'.
--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Abraham
Dear Colleagues,
"A chemist in India has been found guilty of plagiarizing and/or falsifying more than 70 research papers published in a wide variety of Western scientific journals between 2004 and 2007. Some journal editors left reeling by the incident say it is one of the most spectacular and outrageous cases of scientific fraud they have ever seen."
Read more about the fraudulent skills of Pattium Chiranjeevi, a Chemistry professor of Sri Venkateswara University,Tirupati, in Chemical and Engineering News at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8607sci1.html
It's high time for universities in India to make open access mandatory, so that these kinds of events can be avoided in the initial stages itself.
Expecting tons of comments from the subscribers
With regards
Thomas Abraham Project Staff Indian Institute of Science National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore - 560012, India. thomas[at]ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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