Open Access Publishing

1. Many publishing house owns the rights of the articles published in their journals and they charge fee from whoever wants to read them.

2. Therefore, the idea of open access publishing is introduced where the authors and the readers are free from publishing and accessing, respectively.

3. In research, open access is a set of rule and regulation by which a research scholar can access the resource of relevant field of research for further research.

4. Open access publish the research article for free and give access to other researcher for further study for free.

5. The main principle of open access publishing is peer reviewed literature for the research and eradicates copying and reuse by open access licensing.

6. Open access publications are applicable to all types of publications like peer-reviewed journals, research papers, theses, books, etc.

7. Open access publishing is backed by UNESCO to provided free and unrestricted online resource for the research purpose. 

8. As per UNESCO, "the content is universally and freely accessible, at no cost to the reader, via the Internet or otherwise." 

9. As per UNESCO, the author or copyright owner irrevocably grants to all users, for an unlimited period, "the right to use, copy, or distribute the article, on condition that proper attribution is given."

10. As per UNESCO, "it is deposited, immediately, in full and in a suitable electronic form, in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository committed to open access."

11. All digital contents like audio, video, text, graph, images, software, data, executable code, articles, theses, etc. are free to publish by the author and free to access by the person who wants to use it, ethically.

12. Advantages of open access publications are

• Free for all the authors and readers who wants to use, ethically

• Increase in accessing the resource

• Free access to the researchers in all the countries

13. Disadvantages of open access publications are

• Sustainability in longer run for publication houses

• Lack in quality of the written materials as quantity increases

• No fee leads many publications houses to be shut down without fund

Turnitin similarity check

1. Turnitin is an online software based on SAAS (Software as a Service) to check for the similarity in content for plagiarism.

2. Turnitin is not an open source therefore the institutions, universities have to pay for the software to use.

3. Turnitin was developed by John Barrie and Christian Storm launched in 1997 for educational industry.

4. Turnitin is a privately owned company which provides similarity checking by online based services on payment basis.

5. It gives the similarity check on plagiarized content to get similarity report also known as plagiarism report.

6. The research scholar or scientist can check for the similarity score on Turnitin by submitting their content.

7. In Turnitin, the similarity score is shown in terms of percentage of the plagiarized content in a report.

8. High similarity score does not always mean that the content is plagiarized because some sentences can be written, generally.

9. Turnitin provides easier interpretation by color coding, various filters and source for comparison for the similarity in content.

10. It compares the similarity in content from the database repository of various industries, academic institutions for plagiarism.

11. It enables students and researchers to use the paraphrasing, citation, quoting and sources of content, appropriately.

12. It protects the institutions and researchers from the research misconduct like plagiarism, Salami-slicing, contract cheating, etc. and follow the research ethics for writing thesis and/or research article.

13. It is considered that 10% or below similarity score is allowed to submit the research paper and thesis of Ph.D.

14. The researcher has to remove the uploaded file from the Turnitin after checking the similarity score and made the changes as required to get the limitation of 10% or below similarity score.