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Plagiarism, Copyright, Publishers and Authors
Dear friends,
Plagiarism is a burning topic in LIS community now-a-days. Many workshops, seminars have been organized on copyright laws and plagiarism. Everybody knows that plagiarism is unethical, but in-spite of that nothing has changed. Authors and Publishers both are still involved in this practice. On this forum, I would like to draw kind attention of all the readers on two instances of Plagiarism.
My one paper "Design and Development of a Himalayan Studies Information System for India: A Proposed Model" was published in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2005). This journal is being published by Library and Information Technology Association (LITA),- a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The same full paper was published as one of the chapters of the book entitled "Forests of Himalaya" by Anuraj Diwedi in 2009. This book was published by CYBER TECH PUBLICATIONS, Darya Ganj, New Delhi.
Author has not given citation of my paper.
Like this publisher, many publishers in India have emerged in recent years which prepare the books by cut and paste technique. In such type of books there will be no affiliation of the author. These publishers give the author's bio-data like.... Mr. Anuraj Diwedi is a seasoned teacher over three decades........he has been honoured by various scientific organizations.....A prolific writer, he has many outstanding books....etc.
The other example is of one of my paper "Career in Library and Information Science" which was published in the August 2008 issue of Employment News - which is one of the most widely circulated newspapers of India. From this article, much of the portion was copied by two faculty members and one senior LIS professionals and none of them cited this paper.
Now the two important questions are:
1. Is it possible that these publishers, authors, LIS professionals or teachers are unaware of copyright laws and plagiarism?
2. What is the responsibility of ISBN awarding agency, who awarded ISBN without checking the author's affiliations.
Plagiarism is rising day by day in education system. We have seen many prominent persons in the field of education who have been caught in this act. The 'copy/cut and paste' tendency has increased the plagiarism. Rather than organizing seminars, workshops or training on IT tools like Turnitin, we should focus on teaching value education and ethics to authors, publishers and teachers.
Feedback and comments are welcome.
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Permalink Reply by Mukta on
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respect Anil sir
i m 100% agree with you on plagiarism
i think it is happening because most of the people in academics and related are not faithful to the work they are carrying and publishing them...although they can give proper citation of the work they are inspired with and used others work in their work..only proper citation is needed and still they r not doing...clear it is they are nt faithful to their work and field
this is the reason now a days a lot of workshop and in themes it is included...to aware all academicians
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Permalink Reply by Siddu on
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Dr. Anil,
I have a question for you.
Now as per your claim or own admission, at-least two of your articles are plagiarised, what action have you taken yourself? are you not aware what your own rights (duties would rather be correct I guess) are?
If you take it easy and grumble of others actions and do nothing then, you are in a way accepting things as part of the game? then people are bound to be encouraged by this and plagiarism is only bound to multiply and take cancerous proportions.
Therefore wake up now, write to the so called authors and the publishers to predominantly notify of the errors and the omissions, ask them for necessary correctives , also extract an apology from all the concerned.
If they don't toe your line, I would suggest legal recourse.
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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on
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Dear Sir,
Dr. Anil Singh
We are really ashamed that someone did very cheap work, not given the information of your paper/work in the bibliography of his paper. It is unethical activity worth to criticism. You are right at your end that plagiarism is advancing day by day. The reason behind it is, information production which may be referred as explosion of information, in case of use in unethical works. In your case, you can contact to author and publisher both and acknowledge the same content what you are thinking as the copies text from your book. By this way they will accept it and add it in their work, and again they will publish the work. If they are not ready to do the same, then you may take the next steps. They will accept and update.
With best wishes,
Munesh Kumar
NIT Goa
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Permalink Reply by Santosh Kumar Kori on
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Dear Sir,
It is basic and pain full Problem of our society some person have published article in Conferences, they are mostly doing cut copy past . anybody nothing wants actual and new work . They are published paper only for promotion and increase quantity his c/v. its very bad hobbit in our culture.
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Dear Sir
It's not the mistake of the person who is publishing the paper in conference. It is the mistake of the person/groups those who organized the conferences. I have seen in many conference proceedings, there is no proper references, and citations. How they manage it, difficult to explain. So we should not blame to those who submit the papers in conferences and mention in their CV. It is responsibility of conference committee to not accept any paper where the plagiarism is found in maximum percentages. If the paper is having some copied content, then they should ask to correct, and send it back. Each and every day, I find the notification of conferences at small level. It is very nice and good news those professionals are interested to do something for profession for knowledge. But, humble request to not do it casually, do it with professionally, hence save knowledge, give the credit to the owner of that knowledge and honor to IPR and other laws/rules.
Thanks
Munesh Kumar
NIT Goa
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