Yes, that's been our experience while carrying out the SJPI (Scientific Journal Publishing in India) project. http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ For prototyping we had made back volumes of some the SJIM (SERLS Journal of Information Managment) issues online using OJS software. After it was online for about a year, we were contacted by a publisher, saying that a particular article was plagarised from a book published by them. The SJIM Publishers withdrew the article and intimated the Univeristy of the author. The author of the original book had found the plagarized article through Google Search. This is just one of the advantages of Open Access Publishing. The quality of the journal improves as the system discourages authors from submitting plagarized material to journals that are published Open Access. with regards, Suvarsha Information Analyst, HP Labs India Bangalore --- On Mon, 2/25/08, Sukhdev Singh wrote:

From: Sukhdev Singh Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] A Massive Case Of Fraud To: "Thomas Abraham" Cc: oajp@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Monday, February 25, 2008, 1:34 AM 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.

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Dear Colleagues,

"A chemist in India has been found guilty of

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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

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spectacular and outrageous cases of scientific fraud

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Abraham wrote: plagiarizing and/or the most they have ever

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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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