Plagiarism and academic integrity

1. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity :
Problems and Solutions

2. What is plagiarism ?
❑ The word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word “plagiare”, which means to kidnap
or abduct
❑ Taking word, ideas, data from other sources without citation / acknowledgement
❑ Work of another and presenting as yours
❑ In academic research, the creator should get the credit if anyone use their research
❑ Cheating, academic offence/theft, stealing others intellectual property
Examples of Plagiarism
❑ A faculty or student or any researcher copying from the Internet, books, thesis, lectures,
reports and submitting to another source (Journals, Books … etc)
❑ Intentionally copying data as a whole
❑ Self Plagiarism, authorship, words.. etc

3. Why students/researchers plagiarize ?
❑ Not much knowledge on reference
❑ Not much knowledge on citation
❑ Not much knowledge on research
❑ Copying and pasting various work from school
❑ Time limitation
❑ No proper rules available
❑ Lazy
❑ Limited Writing Skills

4. Activities that leads to plagiarism
❑ Another language article – using online/offline translator ( Spinning words )
❑ Using research consultant to write reports/journals/books/thesis.
Types of plagiarism
Global plagiarism
❑ Entire work
Paraphrase plagiarism
❑ Rephrasing other sentences/paragraph
Copy and paste (Verbatim) plagiarism
❑ Copying sentences, figure caption, table caption… etc

5. Self plagiarism
Unintentional Plagiarism
Patchwork Plagiarism
❑ Copying novel ideas from various sources and forming a new text
❑ Rewriting our own article and forming a new one
❑ Unknowingly matches with published work
Similarity Index
Similarity Index=
𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔
𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔

6. What is academic integrity
❑ Honest in all task
❑ Express own ideas
Citation Reference
Citation is a way of disclosing
within the main body, that the
quote, image, chart, statistics, are
taken from an outside source.
Reference is a list which contains
all the sources which have been
sought or cited while writing the
article or assignment.
It informs the readers, the basic
source of information.
It informs the reader, the
complete source of information.
Presented in the bracket. Presented as endnote or end of
the document.
It contains information like
publication year and last name of
the author.
It contains information like
publication date, title of
book/journal, author’s
name, page number.

10. APA

11. APA – 6th Edition
Cruze, D., G, H., Jebadurai, S. V., L, S., D, T., & Christy, S. S. (2018). A Review on the Magnetorheological Fluid,
Damper and Its Applications for Seismic Mitigation. Civil Engineering Journal, 4(12), 3058. doi:10.28991/cej-
03091220
APA – 7th Edition
Cruze, D., G, H., Jebadurai, S. V. S., L, S., D, T., & Christy, S. S. J. E. (2018). A Review on the
Magnetorheological Fluid, Damper and Its Applications for Seismic Mitigation. Civil Engineering Journal, 4(12),
3058. https://doi.org/10.28991/cej-03091220
APA – 6th Edition
Daniel, C., Hemalatha, G., Magdalene, A., Tensing, D., & Manoharan, S. S. (2017). Magnetorheological Damper
for Performance Enhancement Against Seismic Forces. Facing the Challenges in Structural Engineering
Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, 104-117. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61914-9_9
APA – 7th Edition
Daniel, C., Hemalatha, G., Magdalene, A., Tensing, D., & Manoharan, S. S. (2017). Magnetorheological Damper
for Performance Enhancement Against Seismic Forces. Facing the Challenges in Structural Engineering
Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, 104–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61914-9_9
Difference in Citation

12. How to avoid Plagiarism
❑ Academic Integrity (Research Ethics)
❑ Focus on their own idea till the end
❑ Follow author instructions / for authors in all journals should be read
❑ All students, researches must submit plagiarism reports before submitting their project/ thesis
report and check the similarity index of < 20%
❑ Cite the concept / idea / fact / knowledge – Acknowledge the original source
❑ Give training to students about writing reports / thesis and plagiarism
❑ Use plagiarism detection tool
❑ Quote and summarize properly
❑ Awareness and understanding on reference from schools, colleges…
❑ Sufficient time should given for writing
❑ Referencing Style
❑ Permission from Journals

13. Role of librarians/ Administration in plagiarism
❑ Webinar/seminar/workshop on plagiarism – Each semester
❑ Live training of plagiarism tools
❑ Training on reference, citations.. For avoiding plagiarism
❑ Teach academic integrity
❑ Disciplinary action
Difference b/w copyright and plagiarism
Plagiarism Copyright
Violation in academic rules Violation of law
Offence against author Against who owns the copyright
(Publisher)
Can be avoided by citation Avoided by permission or payment

14. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

15. Citation
❑ All different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard) include an in-text citation
❑ In-text citations provide the reader with the name of the author, numerical and year of publication
❑ Citations are included for journals, poems, books, magazines, and more.

16. Citation

17. Download article - SCI - HUB

21. Summarizing

23. Example : Cruze et. al (2018) suggested

24. Plagiarism tools used by publishers

25. iThenticate

26. Urkund

27. Top 5 free plagiarism tool
Plagium

28. PlagScan

29. Grammarly

30. Dupli Checker

31. Copy Leaks

32. Turnitin – Published Article

35. Click - Assignment Inbox

40. Turnitin – Un published Article

44. IThenticate report

45. Paper retraction
❑ Published work removed from Journals due to scientific misconduct (plagiarism)

46. Funding for Testing samples

53. Permission request

55. Plagiarism level

56. The Gazette of India

58. For Students/ Staff

60. For Students/ Staff

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65. Removal of Journals

66. Thank You
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