Misconduct in Education and Research: Challenges and Perspectives

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organised a special online lecture series Anveshan: Online Lecture Series in LIS for Research Scholars. The second online lecture in the series was organised on 11th March, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Manorama Tripathi, University Librarian, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi has been invited as resource person and she delivered the talk on "Misconduct in Education and Research: Challenges and Perspectives".

The program begin with the welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur followed by the introduction about Dr. Manorama Tripathi.

In her talk, Dr. Manorama Tripathi, University Librarian, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi explained various types of misconduct in research and academics and explained the UGC Guidelines for Ph.D. scholars. She discussed the reasons and possible consequences of unethical practices such as falsification and fabrication of data, ghost authorship, plagiarism and publishing in predatory journals etc. She emphasized the need for honesty and integrity in research. The trends in academic publishing and the importance of researcher identities like ORCID id were also discussed. Questions raised by the participants were answered in detail by the speaker.

The lecture series was coordinated by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree, Assistant Professor and conducted by the Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 35 members including faculties, research scholars, and MLIS students. The lecture series ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. The program report was prepared by Mr. H. Fakrudhin Ali Ahamed, Research Scholar of the Department.

The glimpses of the program is given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Dr. Manorama Tripathi on the very important issue on academic research.