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Avoiding Plagiarism (Online Course)
This interesting course will teach you essential skills like correctly citing sources and paraphrasing other people's work and how to avoid intentional and unintentional plagiarism.
Courses include Research as a Transferable Skill in the United States, International Student Student Success in Australia, International Student Success in the United Kingdom, and Learning Online: Essential Skills for Success, Academic Integrity and Plagiarism for Students.
- Campus wide Access | One time registration required
Emerald eCases
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online platform for case studies covering a variety of business-related subjects. These case studies offer practical insights into "real world" situations giving students/researchers a chance to discuss the business problems and enhance their critical thinking. The studies are peer-reviewed and focus on business decision-making and management development throughout global emerging markets.
Subject covered includes Accounting, Advertising, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Supply Chain Management, etc.
Total 2630 cases include Emerald Emerging Market Case studies 1481, Darden School of Business 338, Kelloggs School of Management 412, CSCM (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases) 26, University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business( UTC) 8, Cases for Women 24, Emerald Spanish Cases 27, Fudan Business School 17 and including 297 IIMA cases.
Click here to view case title list.
- Campus wide Access
Grammarly
Grammarly is a tool designed to evaluate writing and offer suggestions for improving grammar and punctuation. Following are some features of Grammarly product: - Help with subject-verb agreement-pronoun reference comma use and many other grammatical issues - make vocabulary suggestions - make recommendations to avoid wordiness - improve student grammar if tutorials are carefully read and followed - check work for plagiarism against documents on the Internet
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a series of selective, discipline-focused, online guides to the essential literature in subjects in the humanities and social sciences, as identified by editors and editorial boards selected by the Oxford University Press. Individual guides are updated quarterly, with 50-75 entries added per year to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries; entries provide synoptic, a bibliographic guide to the key literature and most useful online resources in a given area of research. IIMA users have access to Communications, Education, Environmental Science, International Law, Management Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, and Sociology.
QuillBot - Academic Writing Platform
QuillBot academic writing platform is an AI-powered paraphrasing tool that includes functionality such as Paraphraser, Grammar Check, Summarizer, Citation Generator, Plagiarism Checker, and many more products that will enhance the writing of emails, essays, sentences, paragraphs, articles, thesis statements, and social media posts.
Tools:
- Grammar Checker: Simplify the Writing Workflow, Correct Grammar, Spell Check, Check Punctuation, Correct A Multitude of Grammatical Errors.
- Paraphraser: The paraphrasing tool helps rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article using state-of-the-art technology.
- Plagiarism Checker: analyzes whether any section of text did not properly attribute authorship to content already published on the web or in books, research papers, academic papers, or news sources.
- Summarizer: Summarizer can condense articles, papers, or documents down to the key points instantly in two ways: key sentences and Paragraph mode.
- Citation Generator: Easily create full and in-text citations in a snap.
- Co-writer: The Co-Writer is an all-in-one writing space that combines online research capabilities, note-taking, and AI-assisted autocomplete to give users a seamless writing and research experience.
- Integrations: QuillBot integrates directly into Google Docs, Chrome Extension, and Microsoft Word.
- Help Centre | User Guide consists of short and crisp tutorials on QuillBot?s features, security, demo videos, and tool usage.
- Sign up using your official email ID (iima.ac.in) and set up a password.
- Click on the verification email received to activate Premium access.
- Campus wide Access | (One time registration required)
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The online Dictionary is a dynamic resource for economists containing hyperlinked cross-references within articles, and it features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, as well as incorporating quarterly additions and updates. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online offers search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
- Campus wide Access | One time registration required
Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary research citation indexing database, provides complete bibliographical data, citations, and abstracts to the journal articles, book chapters, and proceeding papers across a wide range of disciplines, i.e., sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. It covers peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals/books, including open access published worldwide. The collection includes the following citation indices:
(1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1990-present)
(2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1990-present)
(3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1990-present)
(4) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present)
(5) Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present)
(6) Book Citation Index (2005-present)
- Campus wide Access
WRDS - Python (JupyterHub)
Python is a widely used high-level programming language and plays a major role in large-scale data analytics applications. WRDS provides a direct interface for Python access and allowing native querying of WRDS data right within the Python program.
- Campus wide Access | One time registration required
WRDS - R Studio
R is a programming language and a software environment for statistical computing and research, and offers robust data analytics and information processing capabilities. It includes powerful tools to analyze and interpret data, particularly via its graphing and plotting capabilities, and it is popular among data scientists and programmers. WRDS provides a direct interface for R access and allowing native querying of WRDS data right within the R program.
- Campus wide Access | One time registration required
WRDS - SAS Studio
SAS is a powerful research software for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics. SAS offers robust and mature feature data analytics. WRDS provides all data in SAS format and allowing native querying of WRDS data right within the SAS programs.
- Campus wide Access | One time registration required
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