Plagiarism seems to be the talk of the town lately, cross-check have been busy with a tool (I-Thenticate). It was originally piloted by various publishers and it appears to work. I'd like to know if anyone has taken the plunge and put this on their journal. We have dabbled and it is a very useful tool, the only thing we are trying to measure now is how much of staff's time it is taking. Questions like what threshold % should you give? At what stage of your tracking system should you have it. In an ethical world it would be at submission stage but then there is a cost involved and you are paying for something that may be immediately rejected. So at revision or acceptance stage?
What happens when something goes over the threshold you then need to investigate. You need to familiarise yourself with the policy of plagiarism and self-plagiarism. COPE will be able to help you there with a flowchart which are in the resources area of ISMTE http://ismte.org/resources.html
Can people leave some comments regarding what they think of it and what they are doing about it.
There have been presentations at publisher meetings and manuscript tracking meetings, so you should be quite aware of it.
Give me a hoot
Toodle pip.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
A bad day
Having one of those days, so I am just going to rant today, feel free to join me ranting.
Had a bad night as one of the bambinos has a cold and had me awake nearly all night. So a grumpy start to the morning. Looked out the window and it was raining cats and dogs.
Walking to train station this morning had a Bridgette Jones moment, a car went through a puddle and soaked me from head to foot, the driver acually sped up to make sure I got a soaking.
Got into work this morning wet, cold and coffee less (starbucks was closed).
Took one look at my emails and wanted to find a small bloke to have a fight. Everything is annoying me today, even more than usual.
I think people can easily pick up on how tired you are and then go fishing to try to annoy you, unfortunately I always bite the bait.
Moan
Moan
Moan
I'm off for a very large glass of Merlot.
toodle pip
Had a bad night as one of the bambinos has a cold and had me awake nearly all night. So a grumpy start to the morning. Looked out the window and it was raining cats and dogs.
Walking to train station this morning had a Bridgette Jones moment, a car went through a puddle and soaked me from head to foot, the driver acually sped up to make sure I got a soaking.
Got into work this morning wet, cold and coffee less (starbucks was closed).
Took one look at my emails and wanted to find a small bloke to have a fight. Everything is annoying me today, even more than usual.
I think people can easily pick up on how tired you are and then go fishing to try to annoy you, unfortunately I always bite the bait.
Moan
Moan
Moan
I'm off for a very large glass of Merlot.
toodle pip
Monday, 2 November 2009
twittering tweeter
Twitter, I have finally moved into the 21st century and gone on to twitter. It is not very full filling though as I am twittering and only have one follower, rubbish, I have no friends :o(
I intend to use it as a source of information as I can follow networks such as the BBC or CNN, also when I do have some followers I intend to reach out to ask questions work related or personal related or just out of interest.
Recently there has been a big hoo haaa about Stephen Fry threatening to leave twitter, now that blighter has nearly a million followers, read the story on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/02/stephenfry-digital-media
If anyone wants to be my friend then follow me, I am only tweeting rubbish at the mo but intend to use it for better needs when i have followers. Or don't be my friend, then I will cry.
Now get following:
http://twitter.com/Garyebryan
Toodle pip
I intend to use it as a source of information as I can follow networks such as the BBC or CNN, also when I do have some followers I intend to reach out to ask questions work related or personal related or just out of interest.
Recently there has been a big hoo haaa about Stephen Fry threatening to leave twitter, now that blighter has nearly a million followers, read the story on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/02/stephenfry-digital-media
If anyone wants to be my friend then follow me, I am only tweeting rubbish at the mo but intend to use it for better needs when i have followers. Or don't be my friend, then I will cry.
Now get following:
http://twitter.com/Garyebryan
Toodle pip
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