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Webinar by Taylor & Francis

• intended for scientific workers
• webinar will be in English

Ethics Focus: Plagiarism & Text Recycling

Mar 29 2023 10:00 AM

Plagiarism is one of the most common types of publication misconduct and comes in many forms. Yet there is no single global definition are often confused about where the boundaries lie in terms of what is an act of plagiarism and what is considered acceptable similarity under publication ethics standards.

Webinar will be focus on definition plagiarism for Taylor & Francis Journals. It will be clarified what it is not plagiarism and where the grey areas are (for example in text-recycling). Advise you how detect plagiarism and offer practical tips on how to avoid plagiarism.

Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1619209422223394653

Offer of webinars by Elsevier

Would you like to know more about databases Science Direct or Scopus? Look at the offer of webinars to see if you are interested in one. 

I would recommend you March webinar focusing on predatory journals and how to avoid them or May webinar dealing with search on Scopus and Science Direct.

More information can be found here

Online reservation of study rooms

You can book rooms only through the Portaro catalogue. Times are set to an hour, but if you need to be in the room longer, book multiple times in a row. From now on, we leave everything up to you. You just pick up the room key at the loan desk.

Now you can also book individual rooms with a PC. Therefore, even from individuals, you will go to the loan desk to get the keys.

If you have any questions about reservations or anything else, write to knihovna@vfu.cz

Manual here

New database STATISTA

The university acquired a new database STATISTA. You can try it now HERE

Statista:

• is one of the biggest statistical platform
• can be find here enormous amount of data and topics of global scope
• only qualitied information from verified sources
• provides more than 1,5 million statistics, prognosis, documentation, reports and infographics from more than 22 500 sources (includes national and international data)

More information about the database HERE

Electronic information sources

Online databases are available through EZ Proxy from everywhere. For connection through EZ Proxy we recommend using a web browser Microsoft Edge or an anonymous mode Google Chrome. Some web browsers may evaluate remote access as a potential security threat and will not allow access to database.

Manulal for remote access HERE

Manual how to access e-books HERE

For effective search in all electronic sources available at UVS Brno in the Library Catalogue you can use a service EBSCO Discovery.

Also, we chose interesting open access sources for you.

Library catalogue

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