Code of Conduct to Check Plagiarism and Malpratices in Research
Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College Sarhali believes that a research must be original and genuine. So the college has defined a code of conduct to be observed in all research activities so as to promote quality and maintain standards in academic research, and to create a culture of honesty at the same time. At this time, though the institution does not offer any formal research programmes like PhD and M.Phil, it still has created a code of conduct to check malpractice and plagiarism in research for the faculty who write research papers or are involved in research projects. This code is also applicable to students of those programmes where some kind of presentation or project work is involved. The Research Committee of the institution comprising Principal, Registrar Examinations and the Heads of the Departments concerned keep a watch on the quality of research works of the faculty and students concerned with regard to plagiarism and other ethical violations in their research publications, presentations, assignments and project reports.
A Few Possible Ethical violations / Malpractices in Academic Research are: 1 Plagiarism which is defined as a) Unaccredited and unacknowledged copying or nearly copying or translation of individual elements of (an)other paper(s); b) Unacknowledged paraphrasing of content from (an)other research paper(s); c) Acknowledged copying or translation of a major portion of a paper without clear indication such as quotes or indents shall be considered an act of research misconduct.
2 Any intentional fabrication, misrepresentation or distortion of data for finding desirable results shall be considered an act of research misconduct.
3 The original author(s) shall be duly acknowledged in the research writing, and disregarding this shall be considered an act of research misconduct.
4 Duplicate submission shall be considered an act of research misconduct.
5 Submitting extracts from research to more than one publisher without approval from parties concerned, and without giving references to preliminary extracts from already published work, shall be considered an act of research misconduct.
Faculty members and Students found to have indulged in these ethical violations in their research works shall be asked to revise their research works/assignments and presentations. They may be penalized or disciplinary action may be taken against them
The Code of Conduct Faculty members and students must avoid all types of ethical violations in their research. Faculty members submitting their research proposals and project reports to the UGC and other funding agencies shall undergo plagiarism check in their research writings. The upper plagiarism limit admissible to faculty members will be 15%. Students submitting assignments and presentations or projects shall also undergo plagiarism check and the upper plagiarism limit admissible to the students will be 20%.
Plagiarism can occur without bad intention, but the consequences are always serious. So it is always the best practice to check your research work for plagiarism. Information is available here regarding online plagiarism checking software, the list of which is given below. It is expected that the faculty members and students will by themselves check plagiarism in their research work.
