The Research Cell of VVM’s Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics organized a session on ‘Online Resources’ on 14th August 2018 at 11.30 am in the smart classroom. The Resource Person for the session was Dr. Gopa Kumar, Librarian, Goa University. The session was attended by 22 faculty and 92 students of the College.
Dr. Gopa Kumar began the session by questioning the students about the various sources of research papers. Books, journals (both print and online) and Web discovery tools are the major sources of research papers and dissertations. He stressed the need for literature review which will help us understand what information is available in one’s area of research and also know one’s knowledge gap. Each library has a library catalogue that offers the list of books available in the library, e.g. OPAC in Goa University Library.
Dr. Kumar discussed about the menace of plagiarism and the need to acknowledge the source either through citation or reference. The researcher needs to follow international standards such as APA or MLA for citation. There are two methods of adopting someone’s research:
Verbatim copying
Paraphrasing
In both the techniques, it is important to provide citation and reference. Dr. Kumar also explained about ‘padding bibliography’, ‘self plagiarism’ and the ‘Urkund software’ used to detect similarity.
Dr. Kumar introduced the Mendeley software to the audience. Mendeley is a product of L Sevia. This software helps a researcher in the following ways:
It is a web discovery tool
Researcher can format references according to international standards
Cite while you write
Software saves files with meta data
It allows researcher to keep in touch with peer researchers.
The session ended with the vote of thanks by a student of T. Y. B. Com. Ms. Christine De Souza.
