UGC secretary Rajnish Jain has issued a public notice on academic integrity for Indian academic community dated.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has made it clear that any publications in predatory, dubious journals or presentations and dubious conferences will not be considered for academic selection, confirmation, promotion, performance and appraisal, besides award of scholarship or academic degrees or credits in any form.
This move by an Indian research funding body is commendable and worth emulating by bodies in other jurisdictions and by institutions. We have included links to eight related items.
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The UGC has setup a consortium for academics and research ethics (CARE) to identify, monitor and maintain ‘UCG-CARE Reference List of Quality Journals’ available at the , with useful resources as relevant publications, audio visual materials, videos, web link etc. UCG-CARE website also provides FAQ’s, feedback and grievance redressal mechanism.
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