UGC Course on Research and Publication Ethics (RPE) | Essential Readings and Supplementary Readings | PhD Course Work

Essential Readings

• Suber, P. (2012). Open Access. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
• Resnik, D.B. (2011). What Is Ethics in Research & Why Is it Important. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, I-10.   
• National Academy of Sciences, National academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine (2009). On Being a Scientist: A Guide of Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition, National Academies Press.
• Madalli, D.P. (2015). Concepts of Openness and Open Access. UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers, Module 2. Paris: UNESCO.
• Maclntyre, Alasdair (1967). A Short History of Ethics. London.
• Kanjilal, U. & Das, A.K. (2015). Introduction to Open Access. UNESCO Curriculum for Library Schools, Module 1. Paris: UNESCO.
• INSA (2019). Ethics in Science Education, Research and Governance, Edited by K. Muralidhar, A. Ghosh, & A.K. Singhvi. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy. ISBN: 9788193948217.
• Das, A.K. (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics. UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers, Module 4. Paris: UNESCO.
• Das, A.K. & Mishra, S. (2014). Genesis of Altmetrics or Article-level Metrics for Measuring Efficacy of Scholarly Communications: Current Perspectives. Journal of Scientometric Research, 3(2): 82-92.
• Chaudhari, N. & Baliga, V. (2015). Intellectual Property Rights. UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers, Module 3. Paris: UNESCO.
• Chaddah, P. (2018). Ethics in Competitive Research: Do Not Get Scooped; To Not         Plagiarized. ISBN: 9789387480865
• Bird, A. (2006). Philosophy of Science. Routledge. 

Supplementary Readings

• ICMR (2017). National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants. New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research.
• Indian Sociological Society (2020). ISS Code of Ethics. New Delhi: Indian Sociological Society. 
• PSA (2019). Draft National Policy on Academic Ethics. New Delhi: Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India.
• The InterAcademy Partnership (2022). Report: Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences. Trieste: The InterAcademy Partnership.
• UGC (2019). Consortium for Academic Research and Ethics (CARE). New Delhi: University Grants Commission.
• UGC (2020). Good Academic Research Practices. New Delhi: University Grants Commission.
• UNESCO (2021). UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Paris: UNESCO.
• Das, A.K. (2008). Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario. New Delhi: UNESCO, ISBN 9788189218218.
• Das, A.K. (2015). Scholarly Communications. UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers, Module 1. Paris: UNESCO.
• Das, A.K. (2019). Research Integrity in the Context of Responsible Research and Innovation Framework. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 39(2): 82-86.
• Das, A.K. (2020). UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: An Upcoming Milestone in Global Science. Science Diplomacy Review, 2(3): 39-43.
• Mishra, S. & Das, A.K. (2015). Sharing your Work in Open Access. UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers, Module 5. Paris: UNESCO.
• Nisha, F., Das, A.K. & Tripathi, M. (2020). Stemming the Rising Tide of Predatory Journals and Conferences: A Selective Review of Literature. Annals of Library and Information Studies, 67(3): 173-182.
• Smith, I. (2015). Open Access Infrastructure. UNESCO Curriculum for Library Schools, Module 2. Paris: UNESCO.
• Bealt, J. (2012). Predatory Publishers Are Corrupting Open Access. Nature, 489(7415),179-179. 

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