The definitions and rules associated with plagiarism and copyright infringement can be difficult to interpret. In fact, it is possible to plagiarize or commit copyright infringement unknowingly simply because an author does not understand how to properly cite another person’s original idea or credit someone’s photograph. Authors can avoid these critical writing pitfalls by familiarizing themsel...

This study aimed to assess the knowledge level of college students on citing sources at St. Paul University. Citing can solidify claims and make a research paper credible. Failing credit ideas others is form plagiarism, which was common problem among in past until today. A descriptive quantitative survey method used this wherein one hundred sixty (160) University participated test comprising re...

peter berger (1929 - ), is among sociologists who has examined religion from sociological and theological perspectives, and has been the source of many impacts on the sociology of religion. berger is the pioneer of the theory of secularization and perhaps the most effective one in this regard; and his ideas is still used by many proponents of secularization. however, the change in his position ...

This paper probes into the publishing and citing patterns of engineers and technologists of ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore as part of a lager information-behaviour study; presents and analyses publishing productivity of Indian space technologists for over a decade, examines various channels/sources in which they preferred publishing and the channels cited by them. Apart from contrasting the p...

At the end of the 20th century, access to information provided by the World Wide Web (WWW) is changing as never before. The fast availability of current medical literature and the availability of tools for easy access to information, as well as for the easy production of information, have confronted research physicians, scholars, and students with new kinds of problems, many of which concern us...

More knowledge about Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing on the web would be helpful for citation data mining and the development of Web-based citation indexes. In the current study, five characteristics of 545 OA citing sources targeting OA research articles in four science and four social science disciplines were manually identified, including file format, hyperlinking, Internet domain, lan...

ijāza a term describing a variety of academic certificates that giving, receiving, and collecting such certificates grew from the science of prophetic tradition and became an essential part of islamic education in nearly all academic fields. the certificate of transmission (“ijāzat al-riwāya”) is a kind of these certificates that granted the recipient (mujāz) the right to pass a specific text o...