Amritsar, August 1(Prabhjot Gill) – Laying stress upon the quality of research, Dr. S.S. Chahal, Director of Research of Guru Nanak Dev University said that plagiarism should be avoided in order to promote the quality of research.
Dr. Chahal was here today delivering his presidential remarks at the one-day presentation on ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) organised by Bhai Gurdas Library of the University. A large number of faculty, researchers and students attended this Presentation.
Dr. H.S. Chopra, Head of Bhai Gurdas Library in his introductory remarks said this presentation was arranged in order to create awareness among the faculty, researchers and students about the usefulness of the product.
Dr. Priya Kaul, Area Manager, ProQuest and Mr. Manish Singh gave a detailed description of the ProQuest. They said this database comes from University Microfilms International popularly known as UMI which is now known as ProQuest Company.
They said it has the largest collection of dissertations and theses in the world to the tune of 30 lac from the world’s best universities some of them going back to the year 1637 even. More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative display digitization dissertations through UMI’s Digital Archiving and Access Programme. They said ProQuest has also given free one-month trial access to the University in order get awareness about the product.
Dr. H.S. Chopra, Head of the University Library in his concluding remarks emphasized on the Originality of Research. He has assured that Bhai Gurdas Library would do its best to provide information at the desks of faculty and researchers.
one more case of plagiarism has surfaced in our university involving dr barkat ali of urdu department. he has got someelse’s work of 2008 as his own research and got that published in annual research report (2009) claiming as his own. probe is on