Dear LIS Professionals,
I was shocked by seeing Vasantha raju ' s information on
plagiarism, though every one in Indian academic community are aware of
the problem of plagiarism, but one gets deeply hurtled when ones own
research gets plagiarized. I am one of the author of article quoted by
Vasantha Raju, after reading mail i compared both articles and i was
astonished by the way the article has been replicated. I feel
plagiarism is one of the reason that Indian research community fail to
make there presence globally.
Every law in Indian scenario have there own version of story
of breaking and cracking it, but that should not make us weak.For
every problem there is solution, let not depend on others to police
us. Every academician and researcher should make an oath of not doing
plagiarism. Every one should be aware about the slight difference
between getting inspired or applying thoughts or ideas by other
peoples and duplicating it. one should do self check with available
plagiarism tools. The administrative authority of all the editorial
committee of all Indian journals should make use of this open source
tools through which for some extent plagiarism can be checked and
avoided.
There is serious punishments according to law for an
instance one of the Prof. B.S. Rajput Controversy can be quoted
here.Like every law in India it depends on us to support morally for
plagiarism, lets hope for better future.
With regards,
Dr. Mallinath Kumbar
Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
Phone: 0821 - 2419397 (O)
9844355929 (M)
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Vasanth
Dear Sir/Madam,
Plagiarism has become widespread in Indian academic environment like never before. Because of the technological advancement we are in a position to track the act of plagiarism easily but the administrative wing of the academic institutions in universities have failed to take action when there is ample evidence of act of plagiarism. In the recent past, many of the professors in institutes of higher learning who have found guilty of plagiarism have promoted to the highest position of the office of higher learning. There is no punishment for plagiarism in India. One can easily escape without any punishment for the act of copying others work. This is the precise reason why there is lot of incidents of plagiarism in Indian academic environment.
LIS profession is no different to this trend. Let me mention one such incident of plagiarism in LIS domain. The only reason for taking this example is, because this particular paper is available in public domain.
Plagiarized version
Title of the article : Use and awareness of Internet at education colleges of Gadag City, Karnataka: A case study Journal : SRELS Journal of Information Management
Volume and Issue: 49 (3) Year: 2012 Pages: 325-330
Abstract of the 2012 version of the article:
This study is aimed at the Internet use and its impact among the education colleges of Gadag city. Structured questionnaire was designed to collect data. Out of 100 questionnaires, 90 filled in questionnaires were received back. The survey found out that, 98.89% of the total respondents use Internet only for e-mail facility, 94.44% respondents are using Google as the favorite search engine for accessing information, and 52.22% were not satisfied with the printing facilities available in their respective colleges. The study also highlights the suggestions made by the faculty and the students
Title of the article from which the above authors have copied the article
Title of the article : Use of Internet in engineering colleges of three districts of Karnataka State: A study Journal : ILA Bulletin
Volume and Issue: 43 (1) Year: 2007 Pages: 13-19
Abstract of the 2007 version of the article:
This study is aimed at the Internet use and its impact among the engineering colleges of Mysore, Hassan and Mandya districts. Structured questionnaire were designed to collect the data. Out of 100 questionnaires 90 filled in questionnaires were received back The survey found out that, 92.22% of the total respondents use Internet only for e-mail, 86.66% respondents are using Google as the favorite search engine for accessing information and 53.33% were not satisfied with the printing and down loading facilities available in their respective colleges. The study also highlights the suggestions made by the faculty and the students of the respective engineering colleges.
It was surprised that the authors have copied even the references as it is without any changes. Content is completely identical. Only changes they made to the article was the user response rate wherever it is needed.
There is no reward for hard work in today's society especially in India. Those who have the power and money move up to the ladder no matter what their academic credentials are.
------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N
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