Academic integrity and preventing plagiarism by V. Sriram. Webinar on Research Methods, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. India. 17th June 2020.

1. Academic integrity and preventing plagiarism
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
E-mail: vsrirams@gmail.comE-mail: vsrirams@gmail.com
Webinar on Research Methods
St. Teresa’s College
Ernakulam. India.
17th June 2020

2. Contents
 Plagiarism
 Plagiarism detecting / checking software
 Similarity standards – UGC Academic
Integrity Act, 2018
 Tips for avoiding plagiarism

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes Commentaries
 Internal or external report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis

4. Plagiarism
 Copying large portions from other publications
 Missing out punctuation in a citation
 Submitting a publication that you didn't write
 Copying words or ideas from someone else's work,
without giving credit
Giving incorrect information about the source of a Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
 Copying sentence structure but changing words
around, without giving credit
 Copying from your own work
Source: http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/what-is-plagiarism.php

5. Plagiarism Check
 Turnitin – http://turnitin.com/
 Urkund - http://www.urkund.com/
 Viper - http://scanmyessay.com/

6. Turnitin

7. Urkund

8. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion
from Plagiarism
 The similarity checks for plagiarism shall
exclude the following:
i. All quoted work reproduced with all i. All quoted work reproduced with all
necessary permission and/or attribution.
 ii. All references, bibliography, table of
content, preface and acknowledgements.
 iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols
and standards equations.

9. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion
from Plagiarism
Note
The research shall be based on original ideas, which
shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,
observations, results, conclusions and
recommendations only and shall not have any
similarities.
It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental
terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.

10. Avoiding plagiarism
 Thorough literature search and reading
 Write in original style…
 Use external literature sparingly and use
quotation marks for the same.
 Insert citations for all external literature

11. Thank you!
V. Sriram
Email: vsrirams@gmail.com