Re: [LIS-Forum] Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ?

Perhaps the notorious academicians in the world is Indians (particularly in plagiarism). I believe that more than half of the knowledge output in India is mere reproduction. There are many reasons; first is the educational system. It is unfortunate that the UGC accepts the journal publications if the journal has ISSN. It is easy for anybody to get ISSN. If you submit an application to NISCAIR, they would assign ISSN. Even for driving licence you need to drive a vechicle to get it. But for a scientific journal, you can get the licence very easily! Most of the publications in Indian journals are characterized by poor writing, copy and paste etc. In many countries including China, the publications in indexed and reviewed journals are ONLY accepted. When papers are subjected to review, more than 90% of Indian submissions will be rejected. Unless Indian higher educational systems insist peer reviewed publications, plagiarism will rule Indian academic world. The readers can look at the study published in Current Science- http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/dec252006/1605.pdf Saba Sarasvady On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:37 AM, ARAGONDA L MOORTHY wrote:

Dear Vasanth/Mallinath, You are new to the palgiarism. In fact more than 50 percent of papers submitted to any conference in India are *Manufactured using Cut and Paste Technology--CPT (or Lifting & Fitting Technology--LFT). *I am so certain that many are rejected on these account. Nature issue of 18 April 1987 (or if my memory is poor 18 April 1984) in its ~20 page article blamed Indian R&D as rehashing and copying. We LIS professionals are in great hurry to fulfil the necessity of publishing 2-3 articles as per UGC norms or so I believe and attending conferences. There are some authors who always contribute papers and do not present attend and them in Confs. I have a great number of examples. As Editor,way back in 1987 CALIBER Papers (held at TIET Patiala), I have to edit and publish a paper from the Libararian at Prasanthinilayam; this paper was already published in University News (verbatim, except slight title change) and also in may be ILB Bulletin or some other Journal. I raised the issue; but seniors wanted the paper to be included. The author attended the Conf (of course). As a routine, as Editor-in-Chief of *DESIDOC Journal of Lib&Inf Tech (DJLIT)*, we reject a number of papers--at leas 50 in a year (mostly in ICT) which are *Manufactured using CPT (LFT). You can see my editorials in **Defence Science journal** *January 1991, April 1991 and January 1992 (all are available om Open Access) where some authors reproduced mathematical papers in verbatimm published in 1960s. Some have no time even to rewite the downloaded material or provide citation. GREAT!!!!! Lastly, DJLIT brought out a special issue on Ontologies (Ms Pratibha Gokhale =, Bombay Univ is Guest editor) in 2010 (or 2011) (See open access on Internet ). Immediately we received a paper from a state uni in Central India, a paper on Ontologies pagiarised 99.99 percent of the paper (Only authors names and the affiliation changed) a paper published from Int Jl on Ontologies published from Hungary. First the Professor tried to browbeat that it is their (there was a scholar as second author) paper. When we became serious and threatened we will take up with Vice Chancellor, then the Asso Prof blamed the co-author; but the Asso Prof is the first author. I can tell amy more incidents. So try to advvise your near and dear professionals to try and write (NOT CPT or LFT) papers. Dr AL MOORTHY

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Mallinath Kumbar < mallinathkumbar@gmail.com

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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)

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Plagiarism has become widespread in Indian academic environment like never before. Because of

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technological advancement we are in a position to track the act of

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easily but the administrative wing of the academic institutions in universities have failed to take action when there is ample evidence of act of

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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

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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

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Vasanth wrote: the plagiarism plagiarism. the particular

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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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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