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Effective Searching and Reference Management

Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development

Dr. Sunil M.V. Librarian, SDMIMD, Mysuru

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Agenda?

• What is Plagiarism?

• Understanding Referencing

• Use of Reference Management System



• Turning in someone else’s work as your own. • Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit. • Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks. • Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation. • Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source

without giving credit. • Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up

the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not • To put it in a nut shell “plagiarism is ‘stealing’ the intellectual

material”.

What is plagiarism?

Source: Asim M. El Tahir Ali, Hussam M. Dahwa Abdulla, & Vaclav Snasel. (2011). Overview and comparison of plagiarism detection tools. Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-706/poster22.pdf


Quote: To quote is to reproduce, in your own written work, the precise words that someone else has written or spoken. So, a quotation (or ‘quote’) is the reproduction of original material within your work. Example: Smith (2004) states, ‘There is now strong evidence that engineering students are more likely to take-up MBA program than other graduates’ (p. 32).

6 Terms to remember before starting report writing


Paraphrase: To paraphrase means to re-phrase or rewrite, in your own words, the words or ideas of others within your own written work. So, a paraphrase is the rephrased or rewritten material within your own work. Example: Smith (2004) notes that the engineering students opt for MBA Program than graduates from other discipline.

6 Terms to remember before starting report writing…


Reference: This word has three meanings, all of which are important. The first is a verb: to reference is to provide an acknowledgement, within your academic publication for using the words, ideas, that are not your own and belong to someone else. [in text reference] The second meaning is also a verb: to reference is to provide an acknowledgement, at the end of your assignment. [end text reference] The third meaning is a noun: Listing each of the original sources you have used in the publication for knowledge enhancement or reporting, it is collectively called a ‘Bibliography’.

Example: Generally engineering students opt for MBA program for higher education (Smith, 2004). [in text] Smith, William. (2004). What next to engineering?. New Delhi: AAA Publishers. [end text]



Cite: This word usually has the same meaning as ‘Reference’. You ‘cite’ a reference when you provide the details of it within [in text], or at the end [end text]. Each of the sources you have used can be called a ‘citation’. Ensure completeness and availability of end-text reference to the in-text reference indicated



Acknowledge: To acknowledge an original author by providing a ‘proper’ reference or citation. An acknowledgement is when you provide complete information about the source.

Thanking the author

Example: Smith (2001) [Plagiarism] Smith, William. (2004). Engineering students in MBA Program. [Plagiarism]



Attribute: This word has the same meaning as ‘acknowledge’. However, the attribute reference to the words, ideas or concepts of the original author, where indicated appropriately, completely and properly is an attribution to the author.

Example: All engineering students generally opt for MBA Program. [Plagiarism] The correlation between engineering students higher education and MBA Program has supporting evidence. [Plagiarism]



• Has I copied the content from elsewhere? If Yes, is it been fully acknowledged?

• Did I write the thoughts, ideas and findings of the work myself?

• Did I write the comments, criticisms, opinions and status on the subject myself?

• If asked, am I in a position to summarize the work? • Can I explain the purpose, objective, methodology, findings

and scope for further research in this area? • Am I in the position to share information about core authors,

studies in this area and important information resources in this area?

Ask yourself

Why should we know referencing? • Support your arguments and give your work a factual

basis

• Protect yourself against charges of plagiarism

• Demonstrate to assessors or critics that you have carried out the necessary research

• Allow the reader to locate the material you consulted


Citing, Referencing, Bibliography • Citing

Whenever you refer to another author's work in your work you must cite your source by inserting a number or author-date in your text.

• Referencing At the end of your work, under the heading References, write a full description of each source you have cited, listing them in numerical order or alphabetical order.

• Bibliography A comprehensive list of all the consulted, cited, and, core works related to the study arranged as per the suggested style.


Citing Styles Citing styles fall into three main groups:

• Name-date

– In-text citations consists of the author(s) name and date of publication

– References listed in alphabetical order of authors surname in reference list

• Consecutive numbering

– In-text citations consists of a number

– A new number is used each time a reference is cited

– References listed in numerical order in reference list

• Recurrent numbering

– In-text citations consists of a number

– If a reference is cited more than once the number is re-used

– References listed in numerical order in reference list


Citing Styles…


Author- Name

styles

Consecutive

Numbering

Recurrent

Numbering

Variants:

APA

Harvard

MLA

MHRA

Chicago-Turabian

Council of Science

Editors (CSE)

Variants:

MHRA

Chicago

Oxford

Footnote or Running

Notes style

Variants:

Vancouver

IEEE

Council of Science

Editors (CSE)

Numeric

Library/Information Resources

• Print Resources: Books, Theses, Journals, etc.

• E-Resources

Subscribed/Licensed, Open Access

E-Journals, E-Books, E-Theses,

E-Patents, E-Reports, E-News Paper


http://search.ndltd.org/


http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/


https://doaj.org/


OA Journals Search Engine: http://oajse.com/index.html

http://www.doabooks.org/


http://gen.lib.rus.ec/


http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/


http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/


Engineering Gateway: ViFaTec

http://paper.ssrn.com



Search engines are popular tools for locating web pages, but they often return thousands of results.

Search of e-resources are more effective if you know how to talk to these retrieval engines.

Communicating with these systems requires knowing certain basic search techniques.

What is Search Strategy?

• A search strategy is a structured organisation of terms used to search a database.

• The search strategy shows how these terms combine in order to retrieve the best results. Different databases work in different ways, so you need to adapt your search strategy for each of the databases you use. However, the basic searching techniques remains the same.


https://scholar.google.co.in/


Literature Review – an overview • Identification of Topic for Research

– Problem; Purpose; Process; and, Place

• Period

• Core Literature

• Classification of Literature

• Note Taking

• Tagging

• Organizing

• Reporting

• Evaluating


Technological tools for Students… • Searching Strategies

Google Scholar, DOAJ, NDLTD, Shodhganga

• Bibliography Building Tools Zoetero, Google Scholar and Microsoft Word

• Questionnaire Design Samplequestionnaire.com, SurveyMonkey.com, QWizard, PDFescape

• Report Writing Microsoft Word, Latex,

• Language Check Microsoft Word, Onlinecorrection.com, grammarcheck

• Plagiarism Check Viper, Plagiarismchecker,



All the BEST Many Thanks Sunil M.V. Librarian, SDMIMD, Mysore [email protected]

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