Research Help

Every student at G B Pant Varsity is expected to respect the academic integrity and the concept of honesty with respect to the intellectual efforts of others in all academic undertaking. We are here to explain you on how to document sources of information, the styles for writing bibliographical references, referencing software’s and to avoid plagiarism.

Citation Management

A number of guides/citation styles are available for citing sources. Patrons can choose as per their research requirements. Some of the styles for writing bibliographical references are as given below:

American Psychological Association (APA) Style please see Perdue Writing Lab

Modern Language Association (MLA) Style click Perdue Writing Lab

Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) online please click here CMS Citation

IEEE Citation Guidelines covers books, conference technical articles, online sources, periodicals, theses, and more please click here IEEE Citation

Turabian Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, please click here to know more Turabian

Should you have any question regarding citation management please contact the Library.

Software /Tools for Citation Management

Citation management software’s or tools allows scholars and authors to organize and retrieve information. The scholars can use these tools for recording and managing bibliographical citation or references. Besides managing references most softwares also allows patrons to search references from online libraries. These online libraries are usually based on Z39.50 public protocol. Some of popular the citation management tools are discussed below.

Zotero

Zotero is an interesting research tool that helps you to collect all your research in a single, searchable interface .The the patrons can add images, audio and video files, PDFs, snapshots of web pages and much more. Zotero allows you to index the full text content of your library automatically and enables you to find whatever you are looking for with the help of few keystrokes.

If you are a researcher, try Zotero it’s a research assistant tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, collaborate and share your research sources. Self-guided instructions and help in the form of tutorials and FAQ are available through Zotero

To know more about Zotero and how to down load, installation instruction click here Zotero

Zoterobib

Zoterobib is free citation management tool that helps you to create a bibliography quickly in different citation styles. This open source research tool helps you to build bibliography instantly from any device without creating an account or installing any software. Click here to explore Zoterbib

Mendeley

Mendeley is a tool to organize, read, and annotate document in one place. Patron can connect and collaborate with millions of researches worldwide. Store and cite their dataset with one secure online repository. Manage citation and create bibliography with number of styles to choose from. Mendeley empowers researchers to store and share their data to find new opportunities.

Mendeley is also a free, open source, web-based tool for managing references, creating bibliographies and organizing pdfs. To know more about Mendeley , self-guided instructions tutorials, FAQ and help please click here Mendeley

EndNote

End note is another Citation /reference management software produced by Clarivate analytics earlier Thomson Reuters. A thirty days free trial is available through Endnote website.

Endnote allows scholars to store and share references, download and file and facilitate collaboration. Scholars can also search across references metadata, full text journal article, file attachment and personal annotations and locate research in just seconds.

To explore more about this tool please click here EndNote

Grammar Check

Grammarly helps You to eliminate grammar errors and find perfect words to express yourself and eliminate grammatical errors. The tool helps you to easily Improve any text, improve Word Choice, and fix punctuation errors, besides find and add sources much faster. Click here to start grammar check

Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism in Research

Students and researchers should know that Passing off another’s work as your own is poor scholarship, and also means that you have failed to complete the learning process. Plagiarism is unethical practice and can have serious consequences for your present and future career. Please understand that Plagiarism is the unethical practice of using words or ideas, either planned or accidental of another author or researcher or your own previous works without proper acknowledgment.

Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s intellectual work as your own. In academics or research plagiarizing involves using ideas, words, writing or information from a source without acknowledging or including a proper citation.

To know more about plagiarism, types of plagiarism, why plagiarism matter, avoiding plagiarism, paraphrasing, frequently asked question about plagiarism please click here. Scribbr

Ouriginal/Urkund:

The university library provides urkund now Ouriginal Plagiarism Detection System to its students and faculty members. The research students can contact the library or their research advisor to check their intellectual or research work including theses, dissertation and project work. To log in to Ouriginal Plagiarism Detection software please click here Ouriginal login

To learn more about the Ouriginal Plagiarism Detection System and for Account activation, Document Submission, Report Analysis View, Managing Multiple Submissions please see Ouriginal PPT tutorials for faculty members, students and research scholars. Click below to explore the Ppt tutorials. Ouriginal Tutorials

The following faculty librarians can be contacted for any help regarding plagiarism support.

Dr. Neena Singh, Coordinator for Account creation and Technical help

Mrs. Arundhiti Kaushik, for Plagiarism check, in E- Documentation Section

Dr. Pankaj Kumar, for Plagiarism check and Trouble Shooting

For Account creation and guidance regarding Ouriginal/Urkund software please write to libraryhc@gmail.com
You may also contact Mr. Venugopalchandak - venugopalchandak@egalactic.in and Prity Rathi - support@egalactic.in

Current Awareness

It is important for the research scholars, and faculty members to be updated with the recent published information and latest developments. The library provides current awareness service as out lined below.

New Books at University Library

The library displays new books in the first floor reference area for two weeks. The patrons can also browse the latest books from the online catalogue OPAC or WebOPAC by month. Please click on each displayed book to know the details about the book, its call number, copies and its availability.

Social Media: Facebook

The library also uses social networking tool like Facebook to help you to keep updated with the latest information and day to day activities of the library.

Please click here Library Facebook to browse the library Facebook page.

If you need more information and help. Please Ask Us