Syllabus of RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

Syllabus of

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

About the Course:

Overview: This course has 6 modules mainly focusing on basics of philosophy of science and ethics,  research integrity, publication ethics. Hands on sessions are designed to identify research misconduct and predatory publications. Indexing and citation databases, open access publications, research and p  metrics and plagiarism tools introduced in the course.

THEORY

RPE 01: PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS (3 HRS)

1. Introduction to philosophy: definition, nature and scoope, concept, branches

2. Ethics: definitino, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgements and reations.

RPE 02: SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT (5 HRS)

1. Ethics with respcet to science and research

2. Intellectual honest and research integrity

3. Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.

4. Redundant publications: duplicate and overlapping publications, salami slicing

5. Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data.

RPE 03: PUBLICATION ETHICS (7 HRS)

1. Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance

2. Best practices/standards setting initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc.

3. Conflicts of interest

4. Publication misconduct: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior and vice verse, types

5. Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributor ship

6. Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals

7. Predatory publishers and journals

PRACTICE

RPE 04: OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING (4 HRS)

1. Open access publications and initiatives

2. SHERPA/RoMEO online resourse to check publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.

3. Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU

4. Journal finder/ journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester, etc.

RPE 05: PUBLICATION MISCONDUCT (4 HRS)

A. Group Discussions (2 hrs)

1. Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship

2. Conflicts of interest

3. Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad

B. Software tools (2 hrs)

Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software tools.

RPE 06: DATABASES AND RESEARCH METRICS (7 HRS)

A Databases (4 hrs)

1. Indexing detabeses

2. Citation detabases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc.

B. Research Metrics (3 hrs)

 Impact Factor of journal as per journal citation report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score.

 Metrics: h-index, g index, i10 index, altmetrics

Useful Information about Ph.D.

Useful Information about Ph.D.

   

http://www.telegraphindia.com/115…/…/nation/story_17820.jsp…Teacher-job rules hit PhD holders' chances- Apex court upholds UGC's 2009 order, Centre unlikely to seek review

Basant Kumar Mohanty
New Delhi, May 1: The human resource development ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC) are unlikely to seek review of a Supreme Court judgment validating a contentious UGC decision that debars a large number of PhD holders from teaching jobs.At a meeting of the UGC last week, the matter came up for discussion. Two members of the commission said the representative of the HRD ministry and the UGC officials gave the impression that they may not seek any review of the court decision.On March 16, the apex court upheld the UGC's regulations of 2009 on minimum qualification for appointment of teachers in colleges and universities. According to the regulations, the eligibility for assistant professor in a college or a university is the National Eligibility Test or the State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) qualifications. However, a candidate who has a PhD that complies with the UGC's PhD norms of 2009 would be eligible for the post even if he has not cleared NET or SLET.The UGC had in 2009 provided for admission through entrance test and course work before working on the thesis. It also laid down that a teacher cannot guide more than eight PhD students and five MPhil students at any point in time. Before this, every university had its own PhD regulations.The 2009 order threatened the careers of thousands of existing PhD holders who had not cleared NET/SLET. After protests, the UGC last year decided to amend its regulations to grant an exemption to the pre-2009 PhD holders. It sent the amended regulations to the HRD ministry, which has not yet granted approval.Ruling in a case filed by a few PhD holders, the apex court held that the HRD ministry and UGC are the highest policy makers and their norms must be followed.Since no assessment has been done to ascertain if any universities were following the UGC's 2009 norms for PhDs, it is not clear which of the pre-2009 PhD holders can be granted exemption from NET/SLET. The confusion is affecting the prospects of many aspiring teachers, including those who had earned their doctorates from universities that followed rigorous norms.After serving as ad hoc faculty in Dyal Singh College under Delhi University for seven years, Manoj Singh was selected as assistant professor in March but his appointment has now been put on hold.The college has sought clarification from the varsity whether it can appoint him since he does not have NET/SLET qualification. The university has not replied because there is no clarity on the issue yet."I have done PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). But the college is not allowing me to join as a regular teacher after selecting me," Singh said.Out of nine candidates selected, seven have been allowed to join in this college because they had qualified NET/SLET.College principal I.S. Bakshi could not be reached for comment despite repeated calls to his mobile phone.At last week's meeting, the UGC members brought up the plight of the pre-2009 PhD holders."The UGC and government officials said that they would respect the Supreme Court direction," a member said.Another member said the HRD ministry was not approving the amendments to the regulations on the ground that many universities have started implementing the UGC regulations. Any change would add confusion and dilute quality, he said.Teachers' organisations feel the regulations should be amended since they cannot be implemented retrospectively. All India Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisations general secretary Ahok Barman said the government must file a review petition. "You cannot implement a policy retrospectively. It is a big blow to thousands of PhD holders who want to become teachers," Barman said.Former Madras University vice-chancellor S.P. Thyagarajan, who headed a committee that prepared the 2009 regulations on PhDs, hailed the Supreme Court ruling."Personally, I support the court order. There has to be some quality control in teacher appointment. All PhDs should not be treated equivalent to NET," he said. Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,
Member, Advisory Board, National Library, KolkataPresident, Telangana Library Association.
UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11)
Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad ( super-annuated).
Formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8).

Formerly President of Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science ( IATLIS) and  Association of British Scholars ( AP Chapter) .

ADDRESS: Plot No A-194, H No 1-8-10/1, Ravindra Nagar, 
Habsiguda, HYDERABAD- 500007. Mobile: 9493701565. email: naglaxman@yahoo.com,  naglaxman@gmail.com. 

Ph. D. News

Ph. D. News

  

http://www.livemint.com/…/Parliamentary-panel-raises-questi…New Delhi: Raising serious questions about the quality of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) holders in the country, a parliamentary panel has sought an evaluation report to understand why suitable candidates were hard to find for vacant teaching posts.
With over 7,000 research scholars being awarded Ph.D every year, the panel has suggested “reorienting” the entire system of evaluation of Ph.D and other research scholars.
In its report tabled in Parliament last week, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on human resource development stressed on increasing the number of research fellowships and new schemes for teaching assistantship, taking into account the shortage of teaching faculty in higher educational institutes.
Drawing attention to the quality aspect of Ph.D holders, the committee said they were rolling out of Indian universities like dime a dozen. “The Committee would like to have an evaluation report, if any, about the quality and standard of Ph.D holders across the country to understand why suitable candidates are difficult to find for the vacant positions. Maybe we need to reorient the entire system of evaluation of Ph.D and other research scholars,” it said in its report.
Shortage of faculties in premier institutes such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) continues to be grim with no improvement foreseen in the near future, it said.
To address the issue, it suggested that if stricter norms for the appointment of faculty is coming in the way, then University Grants Commission (UGC) and other regulatory bodies should review them on regular basis and bring in necessary changes so as to fill up the vacant posts at the earliest. “HRD ministry should take steps to enhance the prestige of the teaching profession,” it said. Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,
Member, Advisory Board, National Library, KolkataPresident, Telangana Library Association.
UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11)
Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad ( super-annuated).
Formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8).

Formerly President of Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science ( IATLIS) and  Association of British Scholars ( AP Chapter) .

ADDRESS: Plot No A-194, H No 1-8-10/1, Ravindra Nagar, 
Habsiguda, HYDERABAD- 500007. Mobile: 9493701565. email: naglaxman@yahoo.com,  naglaxman@gmail.com.