Research Publications, Open Access, Plagiarism, and Reference Management by V. Sriram. In Special Winter School for College and University teachers, Dr. John Matthai Centre, University of Calicut, Thrissur. India on 29th November 2014

1. Research Publications, Open Access,
Plagiarism, and Reference Management
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
email: vsrirams@gmail.com
Special Winter School,
Dr. John Matthai Centre, University of Calicut,
Thrissur. India
29th November 2014

2. Contents
Avenues of Research Publication
Open Access
OA Publishing
Publishing process
Plagiarism
Managing Literature
Reference management software

3. Avenues of Publication
Journal article
Article in a collection
Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
Book
Book editorial
Book section / chapter
Book review
WP / OP / Notes
Internal or external report
Dissertation / Thesis
Popular publications
Blogs / Wikis

4. Open Access
Green Open Access
DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/
Gold Open Access
DOAJ http://doaj.org/
Hybrid Open Access

5. Open Access
OA stands for unrestricted access and
unrestricted reuse
Articles are free to all interested readers
No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.
OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions

6. OA Benefits
Accelerated discovery
Public enrichment.
Improved education.
Funding for research.

7. OA Publishers
BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-reviewed
open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
http://www.plos.org/
Science Publishing Group (SciencePC)
http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/home/index.aspx
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/ (More than 10000 journals)

8. Creative Commons
Source: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

9. OA Publishing
Choosing the right publisher
Editor / Editorial Board Members
Journal coverage / objectives
Impact Factor
Journal Indexing Services
Pay and publish model
Checking predatory publishers (Source
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-
publishers-2014/)

10. Process
General guidelines
Subject
Language and
Organization.

11. Process
General Manuscript Format
Organization of the paper
1. Title 2. Author(s)
3. Abstract Keyterms
4. Introduction
8. Conclusion
9. Acknowledgements
10. Appendices
5. Previous Literature
6. Methodology
7. Results
11. References
12. Illustrations
13. Author’s CV

12. Tips
You must know the audience – their types and
levels of knowledge.
You must have something to say, i. e.
knowledge of the subject.
Make the write up relevant and readable.
Keep it simple – avoid poly-syllabic frenzy.
Consider your language and style.
Get your piece checked by a friend or colleague
with a good grasp of grammar and of your
subject area.
Build up a relationship / network of peers

13. Plagiarism
Paraphrasing an article, book or journal too closely
Missing out punctuation in a citation
Submitting a publication that you didn't write
Copying words or ideas from someone else's work,
without giving credit
Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
Copying sentence structure but changing words
around, without giving credit
Copying from your own work
Source: http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/what-is-plagiarism.php

14. Plagiarism Check
Turnitin – http://turnitin.com/
Viper - http://scanmyessay.com/

15. Managing Literature and References
Systematic gathering of sources:
Using proper tools to gather literature – Google
Scholar, Journal Databases, …
Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes,
comments, and making it error free
Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.

16. Reference management software
Need:
Enhance the presentation
Good practice to give due credit
Avoid plagiarism
Benefits:
search easily for a particular reference to which
you need to refer back
print or save lists of references
insert citations into your document and
automatically produce a bibliography in whatever
style you require

17. Zotero
www.zotero.org
Free – Open Source
Platform independent
Works Offline and Online
Over 6700 referencing styles
Data Sharing
26 fields
34 Types of Sources
Linking full text / pdf
Integration with MS-Office / Open Office

18. Starting an Journal in OA
Open Journal System (OJS)
https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
Ambra: An Open source publishing system
http://www.ambraproject.org/

19. Contributing to mother tongue
Malayalam Wikipedia has 37297 articles
(Source http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
Malayalam is used by less than 0.1% of all
the websites as content language (Source
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-
/all/all )
Publish at least one item per year in your
mother tongue.
Literature in any language will grow and get
enriched only with systematic efforts.

20. Visibility
Research Gate http://www.researchgate.net/
Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
Image Storage – Drop Box, Picasa
Multimedia Storage – You Tube
Presentations, NNootteess –– SSlliiddee SShhaarree
Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, …

21. TTTThhhhaaaannnnkkkk yyyyoooouuuu!!!!
V Sriram
email: vsrirams@gmail.com