Useful Resources

Useful Links:

  Academic Bank of Credits

  Altmetric

  APA Style

  Article Processing Charges (APC)

  Bharatavani – Central Institute of Indian Languages

  Citation indices/ Citation metrics

  Copyright in India

  Crossref

  DOI

  F1000 Server (Preprint)

  Fair Use

  Google Scholar

  How to cite?How to cite?How to cite?

  Impact Factor of a Journal

  ISBN

  ISSN

  Mendely

  Mendely Data

  ORCID

  National Academic Depository

  National Education Policy (NEP) 2020

  Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

  Open access

  Open Access Theses and Dissertations

  Open Licenses/ Creative Commons Licenses

  Plagiarism

  Preprints/ Preprint servers

  SCImago Journal Ranking

  ShodhGanga (A Reservoir of Indian Theses)

  ShodhGangotri: Repository of Indian Research in Progress details

  UGC-CARE listed journals

  Zotero

Useful MOOCs

Our researchers may explore, enroll and learn various research related Courses on the different MOOC platforms*:

Research Methodology (General)

  Understanding Research Methods/ by University of London/ on Coursera
  Research Methodology/ by IISER Kolkata/ on SWAYAM

Research Methodology (Subject-specific)

  Introduction to Social Research Methods/ by University of Edinburgh/ on edX

Research Ethics

  Research Ethics/ by Central University of Himachal Pradesh on SWAYAM

Research Data Analysis

  Introduction to Statistical Analysis/ by CEMCA on mooc4dv.org
  Analysing Data with Excel/ by IBM on edX
  Data Analysis Tools/ by Wesleyan University on Coursera

Useful Materials

Documents

  Good Academic and Research Practices/ UGC
  Academic Integrity and Research Quality/ UGC
  Assessing research: the slippery slope/ Current Science
  India’s Fight Against Predatory Journals: An Interview with Professor Bhushan Patwardhan/ The Scholarly Kitchen
  UGC-CARE initiative to promote research quality, integrity and publication ethics / Current Science
  Guidelines for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences, Law and the Humanities/ National Committees for Research Ethics in Norway
  Guidelines for Ethics in Research and in Governance/ CSIR
  Publishing Ethics for journals: A guide for Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Managing Editors/ Springer

Talks (Videos)

  Introduction of Publication ethics and Scientific Writing/ Bhushan Patwardhan
  Publication ethics – COPE, WAME and ICMJE initiatives/ Peush Sahni
  Publication Ethics/ C H Shashidharan
  Publication Ethics/ Sirshendu
  Misconduct in Science/ Howard Schachman
  Plagiarism, fabrication and falsification/ Sanjay Pai
  Plagiarism – Why students do it and how you can help/ Jeanne Lambert
  Consequences of Plagiarism/
  Publication ethics: SPPU Initiatives/ Shubhada Nagarkar
  Science Ethics and Regulations: An Editor’s Perspective/ S C Lakhotia
  Ethics in competitive research/ Praveen Chaddah
  Publisher’s role and perspective/ Surabhi Shukla
  Introduction to article types, structure, registries and EQUATOR network/ Girish Tillu

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