2 Days Seminar commences at PU

Korel – Chandigarh, December 23, 2019

National Seminar cum Workshop on Academic Integrity Plagiarism & Intellectual Property Rights is organised by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with Department of Chemistry and Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

            Prof Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh in his address enlightened the audience about the importance of Academic integrity in one’s life. He asked the faculty participants including Sciences and Social Sciences to protect their ideas/research by patenting it. He motivated the participants about interdisciplinary research collaborations in their fields. He congratulated the organizers and emphasized to conduct such program regularly.

            Prof. Ajeet Kaushik from Florida Polytechnic University, USA in his keynote  address on “Securing Yourself”, elaborated about how to secure your idea by patenting it. He told good patents can be written up by highlighting history of invention, publications, prior art search, economic/market impact or information, its social impact and identification of contribution (s). He has shared his own experiences of getting US patents.

Prof. Rajat Sandhir, PU in the academic session, discussed about the plagiarism and its consequences. He said USA has very strict rule and punishments for paper retraction but India needs to improve and India comes on 4^th number for plagiarism and fabrication of data. He highlighted about the UGC policy about plagiarism.

Prof. Sushil Kansal elaborated upon predatory journals and its identifications. He stressed upon how to avoid from the trap of these predatory journals by prior identification. He talked about citations and impact factors of a journal.

Dr. Neeraj Kumar talked about the use of anti-plagiarism software’s in teaching and research.

 Prof. G.R. Chaudhary and Dr. Vishal Sharma, Programme Coordinators of this workshop highlighted the importance of Academic Integrity in today’s scenario.

Prof. Jatinder Grover, Coordinator, Centre for Academic Leadership and Educational Management (CALEM), PU, addressed the participants and introduced the theme of the two days’ workshop on Academic Integrity Plagiarism & Intellectual Property Rights and shared that CALEM has its top priority to conduct such programs.