Minutes of Meeting

A meeting took place on 3rd November 2017 at 12:00 noon in Board room, Corporate block regarding Plagiarism software.

Agenda:

1. To decide the plagiarism software to be obtained for checking the plagiarism content in PG dissertations and PhD Thesis before uploading the dissertations and thesis in Shodhganga/ Shodhgangotri.
2. To decide the validating authority for thesis/dissertations

The members present were:

1. Dr T.D Dogra- Director IQAC and Chairman for the meeting
2. Dr Amit Srivastava- Dean Examinations and Dean FET
3. Mr Vimal- System analyst
4. Mr Jitender Vats- IT Head
5. Mr Mukesh Bharti- Head, Librarian
6. Dr Astha Chaudhry- Sub Dean, Member IQAC
7. Dr Akshay Munjal- Member IQAC
8. Mr Anil Sharma- Secretary, IQAC

The following points were arrived at after detailed deliberations:

1. Dr T.D Dogra as chairman for the meeting addressed the members present and highlighted the need to obtain anti-plagiarism software. Since, SGT University has signed the MOU with Shodhganga, it is mandatory to upload the PhD thesis in Shodhganga repository after duly checking by plagiarism software. Since, Shodhganga does not give unaided private universities access to the internal plagiarism software, Private universities need to procure it from outside.
   The softwares as suggested by IT Head include Turnitin, Quetext, Plagiarism.net, ithenticate. It was decided to contact the resource person of the paid softwares like Turnitin to understand the technical details and to have a demo about its utility.
2. Mr Vimal suggested that for better performance, atleast 2 softwares should be used to detect the maximum plagiarism.
3. It was decided unanimously that validation of thesis about plagiarism will be done by IQAC. IQAC will laid down the plagiarism policy for SGT University including the certificate by the Guide/mentor and undertaking by the involved student about the content being plagiarism free. All the thesis/dissertations submitted in soft copy to the librarian will be screened by plagiarism software by IQAC in coordination with IT and after the software report, the certificate of the thesis/dissertation being within the limits of accepted plagiarism will be issued by IQAC.

Minutes recorded by:
Dr. Astha Chaudhry

Minutes approved by:
Dr. T.D Dogra