Browsing by Author "Vasishta, Seema"

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    Deterring Plagiarism: A Study of Steps Taken By PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) Vasishta, Seema; Dhingra, Nav Jyoti; Dhanda, Maninder Kaur
    Plagiarism is an act of fraud, involving both stealing someone else's idea and lying about it afterward. Plagiarism has emerged as one of the most troublesome issues bothering academia. Plagiarism detection tools are beneficial for the academic community to identify plagiarism and avoid such illegitimate activity. The availability of electronic forms of umpteen documents on the Internet has made it easier to plagiarize than ever before. Detecting plagiarism is of much importance as it can help in keeping the academic integrity and giving due credit to the original author. The present paper defines plagiarism and highlights its impact on academia. This paper also describes some of the plagiarism detection tools available for plagiarism checking and steps taken by the PEC University of Technology against plagiarism.
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    Digitizing The Academic Libraries In India - Need Of The Hour
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-02-08) Vasishta, Seema
    Due to information revolution, digital libraries are developing all over the world to collect, store and communicate the information through electronic media. Digital technologies have revolutionized the information management activities in the academic libraries during the past few years developing the digital academic libraries. In the present age of information revolution and ever increasing demand for exact and consolidated information, the functions and old methods followed by traditional libraries are being replaced by new techniques and technologies. This paper discusses the various aspects of the conversion of in-house academic library material into electronic format, which leads to creation of digital academic library. Also the objectives of digitization have been correlated with the mission of the academic libraries.