Philosophy and Ethics
• Introduction to philosophy: definition; nature & scope; concept; branches
• Ethics: definition; moral philosophy; nature of moral judgements & reactions
Scientific Conduct • Ethics with respect to science & research, group discussion on subject specific ethical issues • Intellectual honesty & research integrity • Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, & plagiarism (FPP), group discussion on subject specific FPP issues • Redundant publications: duplicate & overlapping publications, salami slicing • Selective reporting & misrepresentation of data
Publication Ethics
• Publication ethics: definition, introduction & importance
• Best practices/standard setting initiative & guidelines: COPE, WAME etc
• Conflicts of interest, group discussions on conflicts of interest
• Publication misconducts: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviour & vice versa, types
• Violation of publication ethics, authorship & contributor-ship, group discussion on subject specific authorship issues
• Identification of publication misconduct, complaints & appeals, group discussion on examples and fraud from India & abroad
• Predatory Publishers & journals
Open Access Publishing
• Open access publications & initiatives SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright & selfarchiving policies
• Journal finder/journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester etc.
• Software tools developed by SPPU to identify predatory publications
• Software tools: use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund, and other open source software tools
Databases & Research Metrics Databases (3 hrs)
• Indexing databases
• Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc.